miniatous

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adjective

Orange-red, the colour of red lead.

OriginLatin miniatus →
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Meanings

adjectiveminiatous (not comparable)
  1. formalnot comparableOrange-red, the colour of red lead.

    Elytra miniatous, with a large somewhat triangular black spot on their disk, […]

    1865, The Journal of the Linnean Society (Page 480)
    2 more examples

    […] surface smooth, glabrous, slightly viscid, hygrophanous, miniatous when young, becoming testaceous at the center and […]

    1949, North American Flora - Volumes 1-10

    Pileus purplish red; lamellae pale buff becoming miniatous on drying, broad in front, narrow behind, distant, equal.

    1963, L.R. Hesler, North American Species of Hygrohorus

Origin

  1. Latinminiatus
  2. Englishminiatous

From Latin miniatus, suffixed with -ous.

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