Cupreous

Word CUPREOUS
Character 8
Hyphenation cu pre ous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cupreous"

What do we mean by cupreous?

Of, resembling, or containing copper; coppery. adjective

Consisting of or containing copper; having the properties of copper.

Copper-colored; reddish-brown with a metallic luster.

Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery. adjective

A reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper. noun

Of or of the nature of copper. adjective

Containing copper. adjective

Of a reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper. adjective

A reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.

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The word "cupreous" in example sentences

Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver and bright cupreous fishes, which looked like a string of jewels. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Face silvery; antennæ testaceous, black towards the tips, arista full as long as the thorax; thorax with three cupreous stripes; pectus silvery; abdomen with cupreous purple bands and with whitish spots along each side; legs testaceous, tarsi and hind tibiæ black; wings slightly greyish, blackish brown along the costa and about the transverse veins, veins black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein curved inward, discal transverse vein undulating; halteres testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

_ Head and pectus with white tomentum and hairs; mystax with a few black bristles; mouth and antennæ black; third joint of the latter linear, conical at the tip, longer than the first and the second together; thorax with cupreous-gilded tomentum; abdomen purple, green at the base, blue and with a row of white dots along each side; legs blue; wings brown, cinereous towards the base, veins black; halteres testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips. ❋ Various (N/A)

Face and pectus whitish; antennæ piceous; abdomen cupreous-black, dull testaceous towards the base; hind legs black, hind tibiæ towards the base and anterior legs dull testaceous; wings blackish, paler along the hind border, veins black, præbrachial vein and discal transverse vein straight; halteres testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Vertex bluish-purple; face and pectus silvery; antennæ testaceous, arista about half the length of the body; fourth and fifth segments of the abdomen deep black with a cupreous band on the hind border of each segment, tip blue; legs and halteres testaceous; wings greyish, paler along the hind border, tips black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein slightly undulating. ❋ Various (N/A)

If we shake up the ether solution of bitter substance with an aqueous solution of acetate of copper, the ether will assume a green color, and gradually deposits a green crystalline powder, a cupreous combination of the bitter acid. ❋ Various (N/A)

Respecting the slates of Blattenberg, in the canton of Glaris which some mineralogists, because of their numerous impressions of fish, have long mistaken for the cupreous slates of Mansfeld, they belong, according to M. von Buch, to a real transition formation. ❋ Unknown (1851)

And this bright cupreous dolphin was spawned and has passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native fields. ❋ Unknown (1849)

The stalactites formed on the roofs of caverns are often coloured in concentric strata, by their coats being spread over each other at different times; and some of them, as the cupreous ones, possess great beauty from this formation; but as these are necessarily more or less of ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Hence repeated vomits, and cupreous salts, and small doses of squill or foxglove, are so efficacious in this disease. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Head brightly gilded, white behind; antennæ, tibiæ, and tarsi black; thorax with three indistinct cupreous stripes; scutellum blue; pectus with two white tomentose spots on each side; abdomen greenish blue with two transverse white spots on each side; femora blackish-green; wings grey, blackish at the base, præbrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, nearly straight from thence to its tip, discal transverse vein curved outward towards its fore end, parted by about half its length from the border, and by much less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ blackish. ❋ Various (N/A)

285 Hard dyes of steel the cupreous circles cramp, ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

a blue column of cupreous vitriol was left standing upright on the bottom of the broken glass, as described in note XIX. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

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