griseous

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  • Elsewhere, fantasy game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • At its heart, this attitude embrangles the concepts of "need" and "want"; those fubsy fuddy-duddies with griseous imaginations believe that words no longer in frequent use will never in the future be needed by English speakers and writers more nitid than themselves. —  A Gentleman's C
  • Head and thorax black and very closely punctured; the face covered with griseous pubescence; the clypeus with a central longitudinal carina. —  Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Black and punctured, with thin long griseous pubescence; the vertex, disk of the thorax, and the abdomen shining; the mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter with a black bell-shaped spot in the middle; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with a yellow line outside. —  Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Black; the clypeus, mesothorax anteriorly, and the posterior tibiæ outside coarsely rugose, the roughness on the thorax consisting of transverse little elevated points; the face with a thin griseous pubescence; the anterior margin of the clypeus fringed with fulvous hairs; the cheeks have a long pale fulvous pubescence. —  Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
 

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  1. Medieval Latin grīseus, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle Latin griseus, grisius, gray: see grise.
 

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