lateritious
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Like bricks; of the color of red bricks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adjective Like bricks; of a reddish brick colour.
Examples
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The urine which had hitherto been of good colour, and sufficient quantity, now became diminished, and lateritious; and the ancles œdematous.
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Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Note
The word 'lateritious' comes from a Latin word meaning 'brick'.
