Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yellow-tinged; tending to be or become luteous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a yellowish color.
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- adjective Of a
yellowish colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Head slightly gilded; mystax with a few black bristles and many gilded bristles; beard testaceous-whitish; sides of the abdomen and hind borders of the segments lutescent.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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