adjective
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of, relating to, or containing wine
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having a colour suggestive of red wine
Etymology
Origin of vinaceous
From the Latin word vīnāceus, dating back to 1680–90. See wine, -aceous
Vocabulary lists containing vinaceous
Example Sentences
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The gills are vinaceous rufus to deep flesh color, strongly sinuate, and irregularly notched along the edge.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
The color varies from vinaceous cinnamon to chestnut or light leather color, or tawny, paler in age, and sometimes darker on the center.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
And this quality forms his chief attraction; it is more to the mind than his lifted crest and bright eyes, his fine vinaceous brown and the patch of sky-blue on his wings.
From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The pileus is convex to expanded, vinaceous cinnamon, to pinkish vinaceous or hazel in color.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
Forehead and underparts deep vinaceous pink; hindhead and nape ashy blue margined with dusky; base of bill coral, tip black.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
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