Cinereous is a colour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereus, from cinis (ashes).

Cinereous
 
About these coordinates     Colour coordinates
Hex triplet#98817B
sRGBB (r, g, b)(152, 129, 123)
HSV (h, s, v)(12°, 19%, 60%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(56, 16, 27°)
SourceMaerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight grayish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The first recorded use of cinereous as a colour name in English was in 1661.[2]

Cinereous in nature

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Birds

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
  3. ^ Goldsmith, Timothy H. "What Birds See" (PDF). Scientific American | July 2006—Article about the tetrachromatic vision of birds. csulb.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-17.
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