Cinereous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Consisting of or resembling ashes.
  • adj. Of a gray color tinged with black.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An ash-gray colour.
  • adj. Of an ash-gray colour.
  • adj. Like ashes.
  • adj. Containing ashes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like ashes; having the color of the ashes of wood; dark opaque gray; ash-gray.
    • Word Usage
    "I try to think of all the Audubon birds I know and list them in my head: Painted bunting, swallow-tailed hawk, great cinereous owl, whip-poor-will, the hemlock warbler..."
    Cross Reference
    Colours   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ash-colored    grayish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gas-lit    neoclassical    wide-apart    lakeside    linsey-wolsey    dusty-looking    closely-cropped    ill-shaven    muddy-looking    periaqueductal   
     
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