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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the color of iron-rust; brown-red; rubiginous; in botany, usually, noting a surface whose peculiar color is due to glandular hairs.
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GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.
Etymologies
- Latin rubiginosus, from rubigo, robigo, rust: compare French rubigineux. (Wiktionary)
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