What does citreous mean?
Citreous means Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish..
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/ˈsɪtɹɪəs/ · adjective
Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish..
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….
The glow was there now, a citreous smudge on the hardpacked earth below him and to his left.
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Citreous means Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish..
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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….
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