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Definition of Croceous
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.
Definition of Croceous
1. Adjective. Of or like saffron; deep reddish yellow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Croceous
1. croceate [adj] - See also: croceate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Croceous
Literary usage of Croceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... making unfair comparisons of the present with the past. CROATS, (kro'-ats) n.
». Irregular troops, formed of natives of Croatia. croceous, (kro'-she-n? ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... to be " croceous." L. glandulifera, On iV Diffusely much branched from an
erect stem, ni«rc rigid, above glabrous nr early ..."
3. Camps and Prisons: Twenty Months in the Department of the Gulf by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne (1865)
"... that it was of the peculiar tint which possessors thereof claim to be golden,
but which a censorious world will swear to be of a croceous hue. ..."
4. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"Female fuscous ; upper wings with the lines & maculae dark & somewhat hoary ;
under wings croceous, with the same concentric arcs & pupil as the male. ..."
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