Definitions for testaceous

testaceous tes·ta·ceous

Spelling: [te-stey-shuh s]
IPA: /tɛˈsteɪ ʃəs/

Testaceous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 426 anagrams from letters in testaceous (aceeossttu).

Definitions for testaceous

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or derived from shells.
  2. having a test or shell-like covering.
  3. of a brick-red, brownish-red, or brownish-yellow color.

Origin of testaceous

1640-50; Latin testāceus shell-covered, equivalent to test(a) (see test2) + -āceus -aceous

Examples for testaceous

Birds of many kinds are abundant, as are fishes and testaceous animals.

The mouth and gullet is admirably adapted for securing the testaceous mollusks and other substances on which they feed.

Abdomen testaceous at the base beneath; first band interrupted, having before it two testaceous spots.

Vertex luteous, black hindward; femora with testaceous tips; bands of the wings partly connected.

Thus, in the order Coleoptera, the elytra of the male of Rhagium meridianum F. are testaceous, and those of the female black.

They are sometimes naked, and sometimes enclosed in a shell, whence they are known as testaceous Molluscs.

Head obscure, testaceous yellow; the eyes brown; the antennæ black.

The nature also of the ground has an important influence on the testaceous fauna, both on the land and beneath the waters.

Leptura rubra of Linn, with red elytra, is the female of his L. testacea, in which they are testaceous.

This curious harmony is supposed to be produced by a species of testaceous mollusk.

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