单词 | piceous |
释义 | piceous[ pis-ee-uhs, pahy-see-uhs ] / ˈpɪs i əs, ˈpaɪ si əs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR piceous ON THESAURUS.COM adjectiveof, relating to, or resembling pitch. inflammable; combustible. Zoology. black or nearly black as pitch. Origin of piceous1640–50; <Latin piceus made of pitch, equivalent to pice- (stem of pix) pitch2 + -us adj. suffix; see -ous Words nearby piceouspiccata, Piccinni, piccolo, piccoloist, pice, piceous, pich, pi character, pichiciago, pichiciego, Picinni Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for piceous
British Dictionary definitions for piceouspiceous / (ˈpɪsɪəs, ˈpaɪsɪəs) / adjectiveof, relating to, or resembling pitch Word Origin for piceousC17: from Latin piceus, from pix pitch ² Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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