plumbeous

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Colour plumbeous, lighter below, darkest on the fins and snout Dentition: 22--22/21--21 = 86 teeth SIZE.--About six feet NO.

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  1. Leaden; heavy. Attend and throw your ears to mee … till I have en-doctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities. Sir P. Sidney, Wanstead Play, p. 622. (Davies.)
  2. Lead-colored; metallic gray
  3. Plumbeous falcon. See falcon.

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  • Colour plumbeous, lighter below, darkest on the fins and snout Dentition: 22--22/21--21 = 86 teeth SIZE.--About six feet NO. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • The body color was dark plumbeous, just the color of the dark underfur of the adult, or a shade darker, while the characteristic white markings of the adult stood out sharply as pinkish-white areas against the dark background (see Pl. IX, Fig. —  Life History of the Kangaroo Rat
  • It is plumbeous, with a fulvous belly and white tail coverts. —  Through the Brazilian Wilderness
  • Dimensions (by estimation)--Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect; nostrils, expansive; eyes, expressive and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated, diverging, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery spots; voice, sonorous, martial, and appalling; habits, gregarious, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless. —  The Prairie
  • NW San Lorenzo, are plumbeous-gray rather than pale dull gray. —  Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
 

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  1. from Latin plumbeus, of or belonging to lead, from plumbum, lead: see plumb.
 

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