Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the color of iron-rust; brown-red; rubiginous; in botany, usually, noting a surface whose peculiar color is due to glandular hairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the appearance or colour of
iron rust ;rusty -looking.
Etymologies
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Latin rubiginosus, from rubigo, robigo, rust: compare French rubigineux.
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