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nigrous en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin nigrum, + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Black.
    • Of pillared mists, in nigrous smoking gloom, […] 1816, George Thomas, Freedom; with other poems:
    • Sternum: nigrous, clad less densely with longer, usually fusiform, similarly colored squamae; […] 1940, Stanford University, Natural History Museum, Microentomology: Contributions to Entomology from the Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Volumes 5-8:
    • At this hour, just before dawn, another nigrous presence came hovering over him to darken his face. 2008, Glen Craney, The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars and the Lost Teachings of Christ: