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subcineritious en · ADJ

Etymology

From sub- + cineritious.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a somewhat ashen gray color.
    • A subcineritious or dirty-coloured putrilage. 1670, H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, page 130:
    • [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: