ash-colored

English

Alternative forms

• ashcolored, ash-coloured, ashcoloured

Adjective

ash-colored (comparative more ash-colored, superlative most ash-colored)

1. Of the color of ashes; pale grey.

   ash-colored:  

   • 1823 May, “Sketches of Natural History, No. VIII”, in The Lady's Monthly Museum, volume 17, page 268:

     When the plunderers returned with their prey the ash-colored ants received them as friends, caressed them with their antennæ, offered them food, and taking up their burdens conveyed them to the inner part of the nest. It appeared on farther examination that these ash-colored ants were the slaves of the warlike freebooters, for whom they performed all domestic services, while their masters followed the trade of plunder. Huber somewat incorrectly terms the rufescent ants, Amazons, and the ash-colored species, Negroes.

   • 1913 September, Geo. M. Darley, “Mark Melvin, The Vermonter”, in The Trail: A Magazine "for Colorado.", volume 6, number 4, page 18:

     Among these stolen horses were those the Mexicans had captured out of the band of ash-colored ones. If you look carefully, you will see that there are four fine ash-colored animals with the Indians.

   • 2012, Charles G. Gross, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, page 208:

     The ash-colored body on top of the base of the radiating fibers, and called the corpus stratum or optic thalamus (Figure 6c), does not converge to form the afore-mentioned fibers.

Translations

pale gray

• Greek: τεφρώδης (el) (tefródis), τεφροειδής (el) (tefroeidís)
• Latin: cinereus