Cinereous
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| Cinereous | ||
|---|---|---|
| (56, 16, 27°) | ||
| Source | Maerz and Paul[1] | |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light grayish brown | |
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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
- The colour name cinereous is used especially in the names of birds with ash grey plumage with a slight coppery brown tinge, including the cinereous warbling-finch(Poospiza cinerea).
- However, the colours of these birds may be brighter to the birds themselves since birds are trichromats.[3]
See also
- Animal colouration
- List of colours
References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
- ^ 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
- ^ Goldsmith, Timothy H. "What Birds See" (PDF). Scientific American | July 2006—Article about the tetrachromatic vision of birds. csulb.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-17.
External links
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