citreous
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin citreus.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
citreous (comparative more citreous, superlative most citreous)
- 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, p. 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.
- 1986, Randy Wayne White, ‘Costa Rica, the Twig Syndrome, and the World Record That Got Away’, in Out of The Noösphere, p. 473: