Describing something that is a mixture of white and ash-gray color, especially in botanical or zoological descriptions.
From Latin 'albus' (white) + 'cinereous' (ash-colored, from 'cinis' meaning ashes), a compound descriptor for mixed white-gray coloring.
This hyper-specific color term shows how naturalists needed language to describe subtle color combinations in plants and animals that casual observers wouldn't notice.
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