subcineritious

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adjective

Of a somewhat ashen gray color.

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Meanings

adjectivesubcineritious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a somewhat ashen gray color.

    A subcineritious or dirty-coloured putrilage.

    1670, H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, page 130
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    [page 353:] Subcineritiously virid. [page 446:] Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are. [page 672:] Balm flows from a … Tree … of a subcineritious colour.

    1657, Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory

    The infundibulum is a cineritious or reddish coloured body, of a conical figure, situated between the union of the optic berves and the corpora condidantia; [...] It is described by Vieussens as a short subcineritious vessel, which [...]

    1824, The Anatomy of the Brain, Adapted for the Use of Students, Etc, pages 92-93

Origin

From sub- + cineritious.

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APA

subcineritious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcineritious

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Chicago

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