cinereous

• “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...”

  Simon & Schuster: The Memory Palace

• “That's because Anakin is a rare cinereous vulture from Mongolia, but somehow he's ended up in Thailand.”

  CNN Transcript May 11, 2007

• “To make matters worse, there's an alternate form cinereal defined as 'cinereous.”

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• “I might add that the OED does have cinereous, defined as 'Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray'—but what color are these ashes?”

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• “What caught my attention, though, was the entry a few lines above: cinereous 'gray tinged or shaded with black.”

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• “And to make matters worse, Aegypius monachus is known in English as both cinereous vulture and cinerous vulture.”

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• “Blood splashed cinereous fur, and not all of it was theirs, for their teeth were like razors, and he could not keep them all from him.”

  Conan The Magnificent

• “The soil, now quite dry at the surface, is of a cinereous grey; about a foot below it is brown, which passes, as you proceed, into deeper yellow; about four feet deep, it passes into sand.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “Antennæ and legs black; thorax slightly covered with cinereous tomentum; stripes, pectus, and underside of the abdomen hoary; tibiæ red, with black tips; wings brownish grey; radial areolet with a slate-coloured stripe.”

  Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology

• “Abdomen thinly covered with a fine cinereous pile; the first node of the petiole somewhat oblong-ovate, the second subglobose, the petiole of the first node short.”

  Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology

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