citreous
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsɪtɹɪəs/
citreous
- Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish. [from 17th c.]
- 1986, Randy Wayne White, ‘Costa Rica, the Twig Syndrome, and the World Record That Got Away’, in Out of The Noösphere, p. 473:
- And sitting on the porch one night at La Hacienda, reading by generator light, I was hardly even tempted when bats came vectoring down – fruit bats, maybe – called by the lamp's citreous glow in which, turning, I could see my rod fly against the rail, its golden reel glittering like something electrical, or something alive….
- 1986, Randy Wayne White, ‘Costa Rica, the Twig Syndrome, and the World Record That Got Away’, in Out of The Noösphere, p. 473:
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