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schistaceous en · ADJ

Etymology

From schist + -aceous.

Meanings

1. Having the color of slate; slaty
   • In No. 736 the throat is almost uniform schistaceous, except a few blackish dots here and there. 1907, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, On a Collection of Birds from Teffé, Rio Solimões, Brazil, page 64:
   • Eyes golden-green. Mouth black. Thorax schistaceous beneath. 1851, Francis Walker, Insecta Britannica: Diptera - Volume 1, page 217:
2. Containing schist or exhibiting schistosity; schistose.
   • Wills does not just climb cliffs or scramble over boulders; he negotiates "schistaceous gneiss." 1999, Richard Bevis, Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature, page 243:
   • Sharp contact between the 4 kyr BP eroded surface soils and the subsequent schistaceous mudflow . 2008, Selim Kapur, Georges Stoops, New Trends in Soil Micromorphology, page 230:
   • Habitat: Climbing over dwarf bushes or oak trees, on hill slopes, in forests, near streams, on schistaceous, sandy and rocky soils, 1300–3300m. 2002, Wing Ming Keung, Pueraria: The Genus Pueraria, page 13:

Forms

Translations (1)

la schīstāceus (of the color of schist)