luteous

English

Etymology

From Latin lūteus.

Adjective

luteous (comparative more luteous, superlative most luteous)

  1. Yellowish.
    • 1909, G[eorge] H[enry] Verrall, Stratiomyidæ and Succeeding Families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain, London: […] Gurney & Jackson, […], page 411:
      […] the hind tibiæ more luteous than in T. cordiger, but with the apical sixth more contrastedly black; […]
  2. Of or pertaining to mud.

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