albous

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adjective

White.

OriginLatin albus →
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Meanings

adjectivealbous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareWhite.

    Whites:- albous or albus is a pure white […]

    1841, Edward Newman, John Van Voorst, A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; Being a New and Greatly Improved Edition of The Grammar of Entomology
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    Frons: piceous, scarcely convex; rugose-punctate; sparse, lanceolate, small, griseo-albous squamae.

    1940, Stanford University, Natural History Museum, Microentomology: Contributions to Entomology from the Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Volumes 5-8

    These included dark coloured flower, light coloured flower, albous flower, pink flower, red flower, small flower, biflorate and triflorate mutants.

    1998, Society of Cytologists and Geneticists, India, The Journal of Cytology and Genetics, Volume 33

Origin

  1. Latinalbus
  2. Englishalbous

From Latin albus, + -ous.

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