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cinereous, a.|sɪˈnɪərɪəs|
[f. L. cinere-us ash-coloured (f. ciner-em ashes) + -ous.]
1. Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., [The] partrig, grecian, reddish, cinereous, white, and damascen. 1768Pennant Penguins in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 92 The whole back is of a very deep cinereous colour. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 142 Cinereous crows..brave the severest winter. 1813Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) II. 71 The great or cinereous shrike. 1865Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 14.
2. Of the nature of ashes.
1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 455 Round cinereous bodies. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. vii, She must first burn-out, and lie as a dead cinereous heap.
¶ catachr. ? Baked to a cinder, over-cooked.
1807Edin. Rev. X. 333 This semi-sanguineous partiality had given way to a taste for cinereous..meats. |