Cineritious

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  • adj. See cinereous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the color or consistence of ashes; ash-gray: specifically applied, in anatomy, to the cinerea or gray nerve-tissue as distinguished from white: as, the cineritious or cortical substance of the brain; a cineritious ganglion.
  • The tuberculum cinereum of Rolando. See tuberculum.
  • Word Usage
    ""About these places rises Vesuvius, well cultivated and inhabited all round, except at its top, which is for the most part level, and entirely barren, ashy to the view, displaying cavernous hollows in cineritious rocks, which look as if they had been eaten by fire; so that we may suppose this spot to have been a volcano formerly, with burning craters, now extinguished for want of fuel.""
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