With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line
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Cinereous
//sɪˈnɪəɹi.əs//
Synonyms for "cinereous" (30 found)
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21 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- пепеляв adj (like ashes)
- пепелявосив adj (colour)
Catalan
2 entries- cendrós adj (colour)
- cineri adj (colour)
Czech
1 entries- popelavý adj (colour)
Finnish
4 entries- tuhka adj (like ashes)
- tuhkamainen adj (like ashes)
- tuhkanharmaa adj (colour)
- tuhkapitoinen adj (containing ashes)
German
2 entries- aschfarben adj (colour)
- aschgrau adj (colour)
Hungarian
4 entries- hamuszerű adj (like ashes)
- hamuszín adj (colour)
- hamuszürke adj (colour)
- hamvas adj (containing ashes)
Indonesian
1 entries- pirau adj (colour)
Portuguese
2 entries- cinéreo adj (colour)
- cinéreo adj (like ashes)
Romanian
2 entries- cenușiu adj (colour)
- plin de cenușă adj (containing ashes)
Spanish
1 entries- cinéreo adj (like ashes)
Sample sentences
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Coluber cinereus, the cinereous viper; a native cf South America and India; of a cinereous grey colour; the abdomen white, angulated ; the scales of the tail ferruginous at the edges.
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Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.
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[…] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white […]
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