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Cinereous

Ashy grey colour

Ashy grey colour

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titleCinereous
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imageWood ash.jpg
captionWood ash from a campfire
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sourceMaerz and Paul
isccnameLight grayish brown

Cinereous is a colour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereus, from cinis (wood ashes).

The first recorded use of cinereous as a colour name in English was in 1661.

Cinereous in nature

Birds

  • The colour name cinereous is used especially in both the English and the scientific (as cinerea / cinereus) names of birds with ash grey plumage with or without a slight coppery brown tinge, including the cinereous antshrike (Thamnomanes caesius), cinereous becard (Pachyramphus rufus), cinereous bunting (Emberiza cineracea), cinereous conebill (Conirostrum cinereum), cinereous finch (Piezorhina cinerea), cinereous ground-tyrant (Muscisaxicola cinereus), cinereous harrier (Circus cinereus), cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra), cinereous-breasted spinetail (Synallaxis hypospodia), cinereous tinamou (Crypturellus cinereus), cinereous tyrant (Knipolegus striaticeps), grey heron (Ardea cinerea), and cinereous warbling-finch (Poospiza cinerea).
  • However, the colours of these birds may be brighter to the birds themselves since birds are tetrachromats and can see colours in the ultraviolet range that are invisible to humans, who are trichromats.

Image:Ardea cinerea (35852355511).jpg|Ardea cinerea (grey heron) Image:Crypturellus cinereus.jpg|Cinereous tinamou Image:090508-cinereous-bunting-at-Petrified-Forest.jpg|Cinereous bunting Image:Circus cinereus (8391094118).jpg|Cinereous harrier

References

References

  1. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
  2. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
  3. Goldsmith, Timothy H.. "What Birds See". csulb.edu.
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