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单词 lateritious
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lateritiousadj.

Brit. /ˌlatəˈrɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌlædəˈrɪʃəs/
Forms: 1600s– latericious, 1600s– lateritious, 1800s– latericeous.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin laterīcius , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin laterīcius, laterītius made of brick ( < later brick (see laterite n.) + -īcius : see -itious suffix1) + -ous suffix.With forms in -eous compare -eous suffix.
Resembling or made of brick; spec. of the colour of brick; brick red or (Mycology) dark brick-red; designating this colour.
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brickish1648
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lateritious1656
brick-coloured1675
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brick-dust-like1765
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brownish-red1832
brown-red1835
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lateritious, made of brick, or like brick.
1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. ii. ii. 88 After the fit is ended, the Urine often is highly Lixivial, emitting a Pleasant smell, and depositing a Lateritious Sediment, which is very familiar in the Scurvy.
1730 P. Shaw tr. G. E. Stahl Philos. Princ. Universal Chem. 184 Petroleum..by a single chemical Operation, becomes the Oleum Terræ, viz. by being imbibed or mix'd with a lateritious Earth, and driven over from it again by distillation.
1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 200 The longer they [sc. powders of willow bark] are kept the more they incline to a cinnamon or lateritious colour.
1819 Q. Jrnl. Foreign Med. & Surg. 1 255 The urine is scanty, and latericious.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 420 Testaceous, brick-coloured,..not so bright as lateritious.
1908 Torreya 8 215 Surface..conspicuously ornamented on the umbo with dense, pointed, imbricated, dark purple scales, which become gradually smaller and give place to minute purplish specks near the margin, the color changing from atropurpureous to latericeous.
1916 A. J. Smith tr. O. von Fürth Probl. Physiol. & Pathol. Chem. of Metabolism viii. 178 The assumption that these [sc. quadriurates] (met with in the latericious urinary sediment and in the excrement of birds and snakes) correspond structurally to a fixed molecular proportion..is not confirmed by recent investigations.
2012 D. Whellams Walking into Ocean 463 He scanned the sooted pillars and the lateritious stone, and her spark began to fade for him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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