Adjective: atrous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more atrous |
| Superlative | most atrous |
Sample Sentences
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Male atrous leadcolourd^([sic]) on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ; [1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries- Volume 1:]
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Head atrous, viridescent on lateral frontal spaces and occiput, gulae, basal part of mentum on each side of median tooth brightly viridescent; prothorax atrous, with viridescent tints on disc and wide brassy-green basal and lateral margins. [1917, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales:]
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Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged. [1968, Iconographia Mycologica - Issues 22-27:]
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An imposing portrait of a Caucasian male holding an atrous book with a sheepish smile hung ominously over the bed. [2013, DB Angel, The Gift, page 13:]
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The throng shouted, female Eligor flung flowers from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of iron-shod riding beasts came clearer, and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, atrous streets that curved round the spired Grand Union of Imperial Opal. [2014, Mark Alan Lindsley, Future Earth, page 405:]
Adjectives inflected like atrous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin āter (“dark, black”) + -ous. See: Latin Adjectives '
āter'.