carneous

1. uncountableA pale pink or beige color; peach or flesh-tone.

   The anal segment tinged with with carneous.

   1881, G.H. French, “Preparatory Stages of Catocala Cara, Guen.”, in Papilio, volumes 1-4, page 168

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   Abdomen conical, gray, with a flattened hairy tuft on the first segment, and the usual lateral tufts, which together with the anus are tinged with carneous.

   1874 July, H.K. Morrison, “Descriptions of New Noctuidae”, in Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, volume 2, page 113

   A very faint yellowish shading to the line and also on the costa at the inception of t.p. line, where A, bicarnea is strongly marked with carneous.

   1890, John Bernhard Smith, Contribution Toward a Monograph of the Insects of the Lepidopterous Family Noctuidae of Temperate North America, page 81

   Primaries brownish with numerous straw-colored spots ocellated with carneous inclining to pink.

   2024, Chas. V. Riley, “Descriptions of some New Tortricidæ (Leaf-rollers).”, in The Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis

comparative more carneous · superlative most carneous

1. Consisting of, or like, flesh; fleshy.

   carneous degeneration

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   carneous fibres

   1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC

   Carneous fibres, continued by a straight line into tendon, shorten the muscle to the same extent that they shorten themselves; carneous fibres that enter obliquely shorten it more, and still more in proportion to the degree of contraction as they deviate farther from the line of the tendon, and approach nearer to the perpendicular;

   1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, page 274

   Laforgue, observing a fungiform or carneous substance behind the root of the temporary tooth, which, in fact, had been noticed by Bourdet, and supposed by him to exhale a fluid possessed of solvent qualities, gave it the name of absorbing apparel, and assigned to it the office of removing the root of the primary tooth.

   1845, Chapin A. Harris, The Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery, page 126

   An enlarged uterus frequently is the only sign of uterine leiomyoma on the noncontrast CT scan because these neoplasms usually are isodense relative to myometrium in the absence of cystic or carneous degeneration.

   2004, Ronald J. Zagoria, Genitourinary Radiology: The Requisites, page 281

2. Carneous-colored.

   A carneous fringe each side of the body, just above the legs.

   1881, G.H. French, “Preparatory Stages of Catocala Cara, Guen.”, in Papilio, volumes 1-4, page 168

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   Prothorax bright green, narrow, the dorsal middle with a broad carneous stripe continuous with that the head, entire, each side of this a black line dilating posteriorly.

   1864, Orthopterological Contributions, page 554

   Secondaries dark fuscous with a carneous shade which obtains on the fringes .

   1869, Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science, page 35