Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of a steel-blue color; very dark blue with a metallic luster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.

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  • adjective zoology steel blue; of the colour of tempered steel.

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Examples

  • Abdomen obscurely chalybeous, closely punctured, the two basal segments strongly so; the apical margins of the segments with smooth shining narrow blue fasciæ.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Head chalybeous; antennæ red; legs tawny, hind tibiæ piceous towards the tips, hind tarsi piceous towards the base; wings blackish, darker along the costa, cinereous towards the tips with the exception of the costa; halteres testaceous.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Head with whitish tomentum, excepting the callus on the vertex and another on the front; mouth and antennæ black; scutellum tawny; abdomen beneath with two very broad testaceous stripes extending from the base to two-thirds of the length; legs dingy testaceous, femora and hind tibiæ partly piceous, hind femora thick, piceous, slightly chalybeous, armed with spines beneath; wings dark brown, cinereous towards the base; halteres testaceous.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Face with snow-white tomentum on each side; thorax with four hoary stripes; pectus with a cinereous disk; scutellum pale luteous; abdomen pale luteous at the base, and with a broad interrupted pale luteous band on the second segment, third and fourth segments somewhat chalybeous, the former livid along the fore border, under side with two lateral abbreviated pale luteous stripes; hind femora thick; wings grey, veins towards the base, and halteres, tawny.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • The disk of the thorax with an obscure chalybeous tint, shining and finely punctured; the metathorax opake and finely rugose; the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures fusco-ferruginous.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Head shining, with white tomentum beneath and on each side of the face; third joint of the antennæ piceous, arista simple; thorax with two cinereous stripes and with one cinereous band, somewhat chalybeous towards the scutellum, which is tawny; the band continued on each side of the pectus, whose disk is cinereous; abdomen with an interrupted æneous-green band on the second segment, third and fourth segments æneous-green, each with three large black spots; tibia somewhat tawny towards the base; wings brown (male) or dark brown

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

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