Meanings
- formalnot comparableScarlet.
Because I have over 300 photos and no longer a limit of 24-27 shots on this new camera, I was able to snap a couple of pictures of this coccineous bird.
2007, Sand-dee Rose Waybill, The Fortieth Year of a Wollongong Woman2 more examples
This is allied to Lanieri, but is at once distinguished by the thorax, posterior coxae, femora and tibiae being entirely coccineous, and the four anterior legs black.
1872, Transactions of the American Entomological SocietyThe species is well distinguished in its soft delicate texture, much convoluted plicate thallus, bright coccineous medulla up to the apices of the laciniae, […]
1975, Dharani Dhar Awasthi, A monograph of the lichen genus Dirinaria
Origin
- Latincoccineus
- Englishcoccineous
From Latin coccineus, suffixed with -ous.
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