citreous

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Etymology

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From Latin citreus.

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citreous (comparative more citreous, superlative most citreous)

  1. Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish. [from 17th c.]
    • 1986, Randy Wayne White, “Costa Rica, the Twig Syndrome, and the World Record That Got Away”, in Out of The Noösphere, page 473:
      And sitting on the porch one night at La Hacienda, reading by generator light, I was hardly even tempted when bats came vectoring down – fruit bats, maybe – called by the lamp's citreous glow in which, turning, I could see my rod fly against the rail, its golden reel glittering like something electrical, or something alive….
    • 1992, Barbara Hambly, The Magicians of Night:
      The glow was there now, a citreous smudge on the hardpacked earth below him and to his left.

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