Definitions for cinereous

cinereous ci·ne·re·ous

Spelling: [si-neer-ee-uh s]
IPA: /sɪˈnɪər i əs/

Cinereous is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 457 anagrams from letters in cinereous (ceeinorsu).

Definitions for cinereous

adjective

  1. in the state of or reduced to ashes:
  2. resembling ashes.
  3. ashen; ash-colored; grayish:

Origin of cinereous

1655-65; Latin cinereus, equivalent to ciner- (stem of cinis) ashes + -eus -eous

Examples for cinereous

Growing on old leaves, bark, grasses, etc.; apparently the most common of these three cinereous species.

Alcorn found the cinereous shrew at most of his trapping stations.

cinereous, or Cineraceous, ash-grayish; of the color of ashes.

As, when we say hirsuto-cinereous, we mean that the hirsuties only of a body is cinereous.

Although sometimes called the “cinereous crow,” the bird is a true jay.

The stillness was so great, that even the twittering of the whiskey-johneesh, or cinereous crow, caused us to start.

The gills are slightly emarginate, rather narrow, cinereous.

Black, with cinereous tomentum and with moderately stout bristles.

When young the plants are generally snowy white throughout, changing with age to a dingy white or cinereous hue.

The place did not even justify its name, for it was a cinereous wreck.

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