cinereous.

Having a gray color resembling ash.

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• cinereous feathers

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Cinereous feathers covered the bird’s back.

A cinereous film dulled the stone.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a color or relational classification; degree comparisons depend on descriptive context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.