Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of a light or moderate greenish yellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a golden-yellow color; also, more generally, yellow with a tinge of red, somewhat approaching the color of saffron or the yolk of an egg.
- Like mud or clay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yellowish; more or less like buff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
yellowish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The sun climbed on, a ball of luteous fire baking the air dry.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986
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The sun climbed on, a ball of luteous fire baking the air dry.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984
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There, at the feet of a learned thaumaturge, an aged man with long, wispy mustaches and a skin the color of luteous ivory, he had learned much.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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There, at the feet of a learned thaumaturge, an aged man with long, wispy mustaches and a skin the color of luteous ivory, he had learned much.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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Wings grey, luteous at the base, blackish towards the tips; veins black, robust.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Hind wings with three luteous streaks, of which the first and second are connected exteriorly, and the third is short, broad, and submarginal.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Vertex luteous; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista plumose; disk of the thorax and a dot on each side of the tip of the abdomen deep black; tarsi piceous; wings slightly greyish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about half its length from the border and by twice its length from the præbrachial transverse.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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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
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_ Abdomen deep black, with whitish bands on the sutures; tip luteous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head in front and the pectus white; antennæ ferruginous at the base; abdomen long, a hoary band on the hind border of each segment; femora, tibiæ, and tarsi white at the base; hind legs long, rather stout; hind femora with a luteous band; wings limpid, veins black; halteres whitish, with piceous knobs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
biocon commented on the word luteous
In addition, luteous means of or pertaining to mud, muddy, that is made of clay, loam, mud, morter, earth; filthy (OED).
July 23, 2012
qms commented on the word luteous
It's strange what comes to be beauteous:
If renal disease put its root in us
The optimist's eye
Will ceaselessly try
To spy the elusively luteous.
July 28, 2017