carneous

[ kahr-nee-uhs ]

adjective

1. fleshlike; flesh-colored.

Word History and Origins

Origin of carneous¹

1570–80; < Late Latin carneus, equivalent to Latin carn- (stem of carō ) flesh + -eus -eous

Example Sentences

Description.—White; head and neck black; postocular streak and chin white; - 125 -lores naked; bill plumbeous; cere red; feet pale carneous: whole length 48·0 inches, wing 17·5, tail 5·5.

From Project Gutenberg

Thallus of minute, closely clustered or even heaped granules, these forming a wide-spread, frequently subleprose, green-gray to dark-olive crust; apothecia minute to small, 0.2 to 0.5 mm. in diameter, adnate, commonly carneous or darkening, more or less convex and usually becoming convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium pale or pale brown; hymenium pale below and commonly darker above; paraphyses coherent, semi-distinct to indistinct; asci clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 8 to 12 mic. long and 3.5 to 5 mic. wide.

From Project Gutenberg

A Sucket is made in like manner of the Carneous substance of stalks of Lettice.

From Project Gutenberg

Associated words: incarnate, incarnation, excarnate, excarnation, carnate, carneous, trichina, trichinosis, carnassial, carnification, carnify. flesh-eaters, n. pl.

From Project Gutenberg

A nest taken much lower down in June was composed of grasses neatly interwoven in the shape of an ovate ball, the smaller end uppermost and forming the mouth or entrance; it was lined first with cottony seed-down, and then with fine grass-stalks; it was suspended among high grass, and contained five beautiful little eggs of a carneous white colour, thicky freckled with deep rufous, and with a darkish confluent ring of the same at the larger end.

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