Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Rust-colored; reddish-brown.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rusty; having a rusty appearance, as the sputa in some cases of pneumonia.
- In botany and zoology, rust-colored; brownish-red; ferruginous.
- Affected by rubigo, as a plant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Alternative form of rubiginose.
Etymologies
- Latin rūbīginōsus, from rūbīgō, rūbīgin-, rust, from rōbus, red; see reudh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Researchers from the Volcani Center in Israel examined 17 varieties of chickpeas, known to be high protein, ranging from black, red, brown, green, rubiginous, gray, yellow, and beige.”
“Researchers from the Volcani Center in Israel looked at 17 lines of chickpeas ranging from black, red, brown, green, rubiginous, gray, yellow, and beige.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rubiginous’.
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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-ginous
scaturiginous, imaginous, favaginous, perliginous, ferruginous, lanuginous, lentiginous, mucilaginous, plumbaginous, ambaginous, fuscoferuginous, rubiginous and 12 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Colors Categorized: Reds
Exactly what it says on the tin
red, crimson, scarlet, vermillion, apple, candy apple, fire engine, ruby, cherry, blood, rose, garnet and 42 more...
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Colors Categorized: Browns
Exactly what it says on the tin
brown, tan, umber, burnt umber, mocha, chocolate, coffee, mahogany, nut-brown, sandy, dirt, sepia and 18 more...
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Red
Words related to red.
rubedinous, rubent, rubescent, rubicund, rubicundous, rubied, rubiferous, rubific, rubificate, rubiginy, rubricate, rubric and 50 more...
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