castaneous
adjEtymology From the Latin castanea (“a chestnut, a chestnut tree”) + -ous (“full, full of”).
1
Having the colour of a chestnut; chestnut-coloured.
- Elytra piceous, gradually shaded into a castaneous margin, irregularly and minutely punctured, covered with ochraceous pubescence.1827, John Curtis, British Entomology:
- Derived terms
- subcastaneous