Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CUPREOUS
CUPREOUS
Definitions of CUPREOUS
- A reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.
- Of or of the nature of copper.
- Of a reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.
- (chemistry) Containing copper.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CUPREOUS in a Sentence
- Adults are cupreous brown, the forewings cupreous, purple tinged, with two silvery-white oblique streaks at the base, and with eight white semihyaline (almost glasslike) spots, of which four are subquadrate and larger than the rest.
- Adults are dark cupreous, the forewings with four chalybeous (steel-blue) bands, the first near the base and the fourth near the exterior border.
- Adults are cupreous, the forewings with a broad ochraceous middle band and six broad chalybeous (steel-blue) streaks, four of which are between the band and the base of the wing.
- Adults are cupreous, the forewings ochraceous, with three chalybeous (steel-blue) stripes, which extend from the base to beyond the middle, and are connected at their tips.
- Adults are cupreous, the forewings chalybeous (steel blue), with a cupreous band before the middle, and with a luteous (muddy-yellow) slightly oblique cupreous-bordered band beyond the middle.
- Adults are cupreous blackish, the forewings slightly rounded at the tips with some transverse cinereous (ash-grey) lines, a few of which are chalybeous (steel blue) hindward.
- According to this diagnosis, the species can be recognized by the following features: dense cover of green scales; head and rostrum with cupreous scales; frons with a fovea, rostrum medially depressed; pronotum slightly depressed medially, coarsely rugose; elytra dorsally flattened, with moderately marked elytral punctures, with alternate interstriae moderately elevated, sutural region covered by white scales and apices projected; legs covered by shiny green scales.
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