Definition of Caesious

1. Adjective. Having a blue color very low in chroma. ¹

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Definition of Caesious

1. bluish [adj] - See also: bluish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caesious

caerule
caerulein
caerulin
caeruloplasmin
caesalpin
caesarean
caesarean delivery
caesarean section
caesareans
caesarians
caesarisms
caesars
caese
caesian
caesious (current term)
caesium
caesium-137
caesium chloride
caesium clock
caesiums
caespitose
caesti
caestus
caestuses
caesura
caesurae
caesural
caesuras
caesuric

Literary usage of Caesious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"... disk immersed in the areolae, from concave becoming plane, blackish, caesious-pruinose, with a thin, at length discrète, proper margin; ..."

2. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1852)
"Distinguished from H. murorum by its caesious involucres and pedicels, with numerous black hairs, by its thick, woody root, and more numerous stem-leaves, ..."

3. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"Var. turgida, crust of a regular figure, contiguous, whitish caesious, apothecia immersed: disk depressed, ..."

4. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"14>. Glaucous (glaucus); covered with a fine bloom of the colour of a Cabbage leaf. 15. caesious (casius) ; like glaucous, but greener. 16. ..."

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