Cinereous

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Short description: Ashy grey color
Cinereous
 
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Hex triplet#98817B
SourceMaerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight grayish brown

Cinereous is a colour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereus, from cinis (ashes).

The first recorded use of cinereous as a colour name in English was in 1661.[2]

Cinereous in nature

Birds

See also

  • Animal colouration
  • List of colours

References

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
  2. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
  3. Goldsmith, Timothy H.. "What Birds See". Scientific American | July 2006—Article about the tetrachromatic vision of birds. csulb.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-12-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20081217132346/http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/bcl/elab/avian%20vision_intro.pdf. 

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