Luteous

Word LUTEOUS
Character 7
Hyphenation lu te ous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Luteous"

What do we mean by luteous?

Of a light or moderate greenish yellow. adjective

Of a golden-yellow color; also, more generally, yellow with a tinge of red, somewhat approaching the color of saffron or the yolk of an egg.

Like mud or clay.

Yellowish; more or less like buff. adjective

Yellowish adjective

Yellowish

Of or pertaining to mud.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Luteous

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The word "luteous" in example sentences

The sun climbed on, a ball of luteous fire baking the air dry. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1986)

There, at the feet of a learned thaumaturge, an aged man with long, wispy mustaches and a skin the color of luteous ivory, he had learned much. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1983)

Vertex luteous; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista plumose; disk of the thorax and a dot on each side of the tip of the abdomen deep black; tarsi piceous; wings slightly greyish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about half its length from the border and by twice its length from the præbrachial transverse. ❋ Various (N/A)

_ Vertex luteous, black hindward; femora with testaceous tips; bands of the wings partly connected. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hind wings with three luteous streaks, of which the first and second are connected exteriorly, and the third is short, broad, and submarginal. ❋ Various (N/A)

Face with snow-white tomentum on each side; thorax with four hoary stripes; pectus with a cinereous disk; scutellum pale luteous; abdomen pale luteous at the base, and with a broad interrupted pale luteous band on the second segment, third and fourth segments somewhat chalybeous, the former livid along the fore border, under side with two lateral abbreviated pale luteous stripes; hind femora thick; wings grey, veins towards the base, and halteres, tawny. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head pale yellow, black hindward, white beneath; antennæ pale luteous, third joint very short, arista bare; scutellum white; pectus with a white spot on each side; abdomen white at the tip; middle legs with testaceous tibiæ and tarsi; hind wings blackish, cinereous hindward; halteres snow-white. ❋ Various (N/A)

Fore wings with eight wedge-shaped luteous streaks, of which three are near the base, two subcostal, two hindward, and one submarginal and transverse. ❋ Various (N/A)

_ Abdomen deep black, with whitish bands on the sutures; tip luteous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thorax with two luteous bands in front, and with a luteous spot hindward. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thorax with a slight luteous band in front, and another hindward. ❋ Various (N/A)

Wings grey, luteous at the base, blackish towards the tips; veins black, robust. ❋ Various (N/A)

Abdomen with a luteous band on the hind border of each segment. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head in front and the pectus white; antennæ ferruginous at the base; abdomen long, a hoary band on the hind border of each segment; femora, tibiæ, and tarsi white at the base; hind legs long, rather stout; hind femora with a luteous band; wings limpid, veins black; halteres whitish, with piceous knobs. ❋ Various (N/A)

Abdomen white, with brown dorsal dots; tip luteous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head testaceous, with three black stripes on the face; eyes very slightly petiolated; antennæ black; thorax with four purplish black stripes; scutellum blue, green at the base; pectus tawny; abdomen tawny, with bright green reflections; legs black; femora luteous towards the base; tibiæ with indistinct luteous bands; wings slightly greenish, with a blackish interrupted costal stripe containing luteous streaks; discal transverse vein clouded with brown; veins in structure like those of the preceding species; halteres testaceous, with black tips. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head white behind and about the eyes, vertex luteous; face and antennæ tawny, third joint of the latter long, slender, linear; arista very slightly plumose; thorax with eight hoary stripes; pectus hoary; abdomen with a hoary band on the fore border of each segment; legs black; wings limpid, with four blackish bands, and with some blackish marks nearer the base; two blackish streaks between the first and second bands; veins black; discal transverse vein straight, parted by one-fourth of its length from the border, and by very much more than its length from the præbrachial transverse; halteres black. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head gilded; mystax with numerous gilded bristles; mouth lanceolate, very stout; antennæ reddish, third joint long, lanceolate, abruptly acuminated at the tip; thorax with three very broad blackish stripes; disk of the pectus black; abdomen with the segments darker towards the base, underside black towards the tip; legs reddish, stout; tarsi with black bands beneath; wings somewhat luteous, with a large blackish patch on the hind border near the base, and with a very broad blackish band near the tip; halteres testaceous. ❋ Various (N/A)

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