cupreous
Americanadjective
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copper-colored; metallic reddish-brown.
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consisting of or containing copper; copperlike.
adjective
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of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
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of the reddish-brown colour of copper
Etymology
Origin of cupreous
1660–70; < Late Latin cupreus, equivalent to cupr ( um ) copper 1 + -eus -eous
Example Sentences
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And this bright cupreous dolphin was spawned and has passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native fields.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
Hence repeated vomits, and cupreous salts, and small doses of squill or foxglove, are so efficacious in this disease.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver and bright cupreous fishes, which looked like a string of jewels.
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
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