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Testaceous

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tes⋅ta⋅ceous

  [te-stey-shuhs]
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–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or derived from shells.
2. having a test or shell-like covering.
3. of a brick-red, brownish-red, or brownish-yellow color.
Origin:
1640–50; < L testāceus shell-covered, equiv. to test(a) (see test 2 ) + -āceus -aceous
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tes·ta·ceous   (tě-stā'shəs)   
adj.  

  1. Biology

    1. Having a hard shell or shell-like outer covering: testaceous echinoderms.

    2. Composed of a shell or shell-like material: a testaceous operculum.

  2. Having the reddish-brown or brownish-yellow hue of bricks.


[From Latin testāceus, from testa, shell.]
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