Examples of 'olivaceous' in a sentence

Meaning of "olivaceous"

Olivaceous is an adjective that describes a yellowish-green or olive-green color
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  • Having the color of a green olive.

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The hindwings are olivaceous towards the base.
It is a medium sized damselfly with olivaceous eyes.
It is olivaceous with nacreous reflections.
The shell has a brownish olivaceous color.
It is light olivaceous or pale corneous.
But the upper surface is a bright tawny or olivaceous yellow.
Mature females were golden olivaceous with an indistinct lateral band.
The ground colour of the forewings is white with a faint olivaceous tinge.
The species also have an olivaceous to black reverse.
The tubes themselves are initially white, later becoming yellowish or olivaceous.
The color is olivaceous ochre.
The wings are white and strongly irrorated and clouded with a light olivaceous drab-grey.
The head and neck are grey or olivaceous streaked with dark brown.
The olivaceous piculet ( Picumnus olivaceus ) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
She also reviewed the fishing activity of olivaceous cormorants.

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Most species are rather plain olivaceous brown above with much yellow to beige below.
The olivaceous flatbill ( Rhynchocyclus olivaceus ) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.
The shell is covered with an olivaceous periostracum, with about eleven whorls.
Original description The shell is rather small, stout, solid and chalky under an olivaceous periostraeum.
The fish has an olivaceous to brown-black color on top grading to a lighter yellow below.
The shell of animals from natural habitats is usually olivaceous ( olive drab ) in color.
The remainder of the wing is olivaceous ochreous, bordered with pink along the outer margin.
The shell is whitish or flesh-white, under a livid olivaceous epidermis.
The olivaceous greenlet ( " Hylophilus olivaceus " ) is a species of bird in the Vireonidae family.
Its rather grey plumage is similar to the olivaceous warbler, but tail movements are diagnostic.
The olivaceous thornbill ( " Chalcostigma olivaceum " ) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.
The terminal cilia whitish, mottled with olivaceous brownish and the dorsal cilia grey.
The olivaceous elaenia ( " Elaenia mesoleuca " ) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.
The color of the shell is light yellowish or fawn, olivaceous to orange-brown.
The olivaceous siskin ( " Spinus olivacea " ) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.
Usually rather large " warblers ", most are olivaceous brown above with much yellow to beige below.
The olivaceous piha ( " Snowornis cryptolophus " ) is a species of bird in the Cotingidae family.

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