miniatous
English
Etymology
From Latin miniatus, suffixed with -ous.
Adjective
miniatous (not comparable)
- (formal) Orange-red, the colour of red lead.
- 1865, The Journal of the Linnean Society (Page 480)
- Elytra miniatous, with a large somewhat triangular black spot on their disk, […]
- 1949, North American Flora - Volumes 1-10
- […] surface smooth, glabrous, slightly viscid, hygrophanous, miniatous when young, becoming testaceous at the center and […]
- 1963, L.R. Hesler, North American Species of Hygrohorus
- Pileus purplish red; lamellae pale buff becoming miniatous on drying, broad in front, narrow behind, distant, equal.
- 1865, The Journal of the Linnean Society (Page 480)