Piceous

//ˈpɪ.sɪ.əs//

Synonyms for "piceous" (2 found)

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Translations

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Italian

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  • piceo adj (of or pertaining to pitch; having a quality like pitch)
  • piceo adj (resembling pitch in colour)

Spanish

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  • piceo adj (of or pertaining to pitch; having a quality like pitch)
  • píceo adj (resembling pitch in colour)

Sample sentences

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I do not therefore require of you to believe, that the ancient rocks and compact bodies were diſſolved, but that many new ones were formed by the deluge, which had incloſed the ſpoils of the ſea within them. […] What other rational account will you give of that ſhell of a nautilus, which was found buried in a ſtratum of a piceous ſubstance below the bed of the river Arbis, where Artaxerxes commanded a bridge to be built over it?

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Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous.

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The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work, […]

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Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five lines of piceous spots; […] Tibiæ piceous towards the tips; tarsi piceous.

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