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Definition of Testaceous

Testaceous
Testaceous Tes*ta"ceous, a. [L. testaceus, fr. testa a shell. See Testa.] 1. Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell. 2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. Testaceous animals (Zo["o]l.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.

Meaning of Testaceous from wikipedia

- piceous with testaceous to brunneo-testaceous lateral margins. The pronotum is rufo-brunneous to rufo-piceous with lighter, brunneo-testaceous to rufo-brunneous...
- Ptecticus testaceus (Fabricius, 1805 Synonyms Musca elongata Fabricius, 1794 Sargus testaceus Fabricius, 1805 Ptecticus testaceous James & McFadden, 1982...
- emendation) For the species: Stoeberhinus testacea (lapsus) Stoeberhinus testaceous Swezey, 1910 (unjustified emendation) Pitkin & Jenkins (2004) Clarke (1986)...
- The testaceous white-back (Coleophora albicosta) is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in most of western Europe. The wingspan is about 14 mm...
- silvery white beneath. The thorax has a testaceous stripe on each side. The forewings have a whitish-testaceous tinged and slightly hyaline disk and there...
- 9 mm. Head rufo-testaceous. Clypeus not bordered. Head finely, sp****ly and relatively regularly punctured. Antennae flavo-testaceous, which are moderately...
- with a fawn-coloured band and the forewings with two dark cupreous-brown testaceous-bordered bands. The first band is abbreviated in front, dilated hindward...
- rufo-piceous lateral margins. The elytra are black. There are four testaceous to rufo-testaceous markings. Adults occur in mixed forest of montane areas, mostly...
- It is found in Panama. The wingspan is about 35 mm. The forewings are testaceous, with a patch of bluish grey suffusion beyond the end of the cell (only...
- Radcliffe Grote in 1866. It is found on Cuba. Female Very pale yellowish testaceous. Primaries, marked with irregular and sp**** black powdery dots; ... The...