Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the color of lilac: as, the lilaceous throat of a humming-bird.
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Examples
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The sides of the valley were here nearly precipitous; but, as frequently happens with stratified rocks, small ledges projected, which were thickly covered by wild bananas, lilaceous plants, and other luxuriant productions of the tropics.
Chapter XVIII 1909
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Its flowers are extremely small, but so numerous that in their blossoming season miles of fields are coloured by them a beautiful lilaceous blue.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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They take a lilaceous hue, broken by gray and green lights; and as we draw yet nearer they prove dissimilar both in shape and tint ....
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
mollusque commented on the word lilaceous
Of a lilac color. (Not liliaceous, of or resembling lilies.)
January 22, 2008