Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the color of lilac: as, the lilaceous throat of a humming-bird.
Examples
“The sides of the valley were here nearly precipitous; but, as frequently happens with stratified rocks, small ledges projected, which were thickly covered by wild bananas, lilaceous plants, and other luxuriant productions of the tropics.”
“Its flowers are extremely small, but so numerous that in their blossoming season miles of fields are coloured by them a beautiful lilaceous blue.”
“They take a lilaceous hue, broken by gray and green lights; and as we draw yet nearer they prove dissimilar both in shape and tint ....”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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mollusque Of a lilac color. (Not liliaceous, of or resembling lilies.) Jan 22, 2008