Castaneous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the colour of a chestnut; chestnut-coloured.

    "Elytra piceous, gradually shaded into a castaneous margin, irregularly and minutely punctured, covered with ochraceous pubescence."

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"Elytra piceous, gradually shaded into a castaneous margin, irregularly and minutely punctured, covered with ochraceous pubescence."

Etymology

From the Latin castanea (“a chestnut, a chestnut tree”) + -ous (“full, full of”).

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