Adjective : cinereous bodies. ,a cinereous bird. From Dictionary.com.
Black, with cinereous tomentum and with moderately stout bristles. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
To make matters worse, there's an alternate form cinereal defined as 'cinereous.'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ASHES TO ASHES.] Reference
Wings shining; marginal line black; fringe pale cinereous, including a darker line. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
That's because Anakin is a rare cinereous vulture from Mongolia, but somehow he's ended up in Thailand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2007] Reference
Head smooth; antennæ piceous; tarsi whitish; wings blackish cinereous, veins black; halteres snow-white. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
What caught my attention, though, was the entry a few lines above: cinereous 'gray tinged or shaded with black.'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ASHES TO ASHES.] Reference
And to make matters worse, Aegypius monachus is known in English as both cinereous vulture and cinerous vulture. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ASHES TO ASHES.] Reference
Front, fore borders of the thorax and hind borders of the abdominal segments ochraceous; dorsal tuft pale cinereous, rather large. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The insect entirely covered with a short downy cinereous pile, the abdomen having also a number of scattered erect glittering hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Blood splashed cinereous fur, and not all of it was theirs, for their teeth were like razors, and he could not keep them all from him. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
Abdomen ovate; the scale of the petiole sub-incrassate, with its margin rounded above; the insect very thinly covered with a fine cinereous pile. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Thorax æneous black; pectus cinereous; tarsi, femora at the base, and fore legs, pale testaceous; wings limpid; costa at the base and veins black. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Black; head and thorax opake, and thinly clothed with cinereous pubescence, that on the disk of the thorax and margin of the scutellum slightly ochraceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Abdomen shining, delicately punctured; the basal margins of the second, third, and fourth segments with a band of cinereous pubescence, attenuated in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
European spoonbill, and the South American cinereous boatbill. From Wordnik.com. [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference
The place did not even justify its name, for it was a cinereous wreck. From Wordnik.com. [The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable] Reference
Bay Company -- the largest of which is the cinereous owl, whose wings have. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
Beneath the long hairs, in all parts, there is a thick coat of cinereous wool of exquisite fineness. From Wordnik.com. [Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.] Reference
Flint., to outward view is of a cinereous colour, and adorned by Nature with fomwhat more than ordi - nary. From Wordnik.com. [The natural history of Oxford-shire : being an essay toward the natural history of England] Reference
The rare animals she has spotted include white-tailed sea eagles, cinereous vultures and red-crowned cranes. From Wordnik.com. [Stars and Stripes] Reference
The stillness was so great that even the twittering of the whiskey-johneesh, or cinereous crow caused us to start. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
Above slaty cinereous, whitish beneath; the vertical nose-leaf of moderate size, oval; inner lobe of tragus ovate. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
It is probably a distinct species from the common one, (lupus,) much larger and stronger, and of a yellowish cinereous color. From Wordnik.com. [Townsend Chapter 14] Reference
The ferruginous sandstones, granites, and marbles, that become cinereous and sometimes brown in damp air, have an aspect altogether different. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The summer birds had by this time entirely deserted us, leaving for our winter companions the raven, cinereous crow, ptarmigan, and snow-bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey to the Polar Sea] Reference
The summer birds by this time had entirely deserted us, leaving, for our winter companions, the raven, cinereous crow, ptarmigan, and snow-bird. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2] Reference
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