cinereous

cinereous
/si near"ee euhs/, adj.
1. in the state of or reduced to ashes: cinereous bodies.
2. resembling ashes.
3. ashen; ash-colored; grayish: a cinereous bird.
Also, cineritious /sin'euh rish"euhs/.
[1655-65; < L cinereus, equiv. to ciner- (s. of cinis) ashes + -eus -EOUS]

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