albidadj.
/ˈalbɪd/, U.S. /ˈælbəd/ 1. Whitish. Now rare.
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1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Mm3v Its flowers are albid [L. flores albidi].
1858 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 501/1 Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
1893 Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 5 169 Capitulum globose,..at length rose or flesh colour, pruinose, rarely albid.
1991 J. Barnes Talking it Over ix. 112 Her hair had passed through its albid phase and was now the colour of a Gitaned forefinger.
2. Palaeontology. Designating (part of) a conodont element which is white in colour, and opaque rather than translucent.
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1974 Palaeontology 17 730 Some conodonts are entirely hyaline. Those with white matter may be referred to as albid.
1983 Jrnl. Paleontol. 57 290/2 Elements of Rossodus and Juanognathus are albid above a hyaline base, but the taxonomic significance of white matter..in conodont elements is still debated.
2006 Jrnl. Paleontol. 80 971/1 Species of Drepanoistodus..have cusps that are completely and opaquely albid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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