carneous

noun

1. (uncountable)A pale pink or beige color; peach or flesh-tone.

   “Abdomen conical, gray, with a flattened hairy tuft on the first segment, and the usual lateral tufts, which together with the anus are tinged with carneous.”

   “The anal segment tinged with with carneous.”

   “A very faint yellowish shading to the line and also on the costa at the inception of t.p. line, where A, bicarnea is strongly marked with carneous.”

   “Primaries brownish with numerous straw-colored spots ocellated with carneous inclining to pink.”

adj

1. Consisting of, or like, flesh; fleshy.

   “carneous degeneration”

   “carneous fibres”

   “Carneous fibres, continued by a straight line into tendon, shorten the muscle to the same extent that they shorten themselves; carneous fibres that enter obliquely shorten it more, and still more in proportion to the degree of contraction as they deviate farther from the line of the tendon, and approach nearer to the perpendicular;”

   “Laforgue, observing a fungiform or carneous substance behind the root of the temporary tooth, which, in fact, had been noticed by Bourdet, and supposed by him to exhale a fluid possessed of solvent qualities, gave it the name of absorbing apparel, and assigned to it the office of removing the root of the primary tooth.”

   “An enlarged uterus frequently is the only sign of uterine leiomyoma on the noncontrast CT scan because these neoplasms usually are isodense relative to myometrium in the absence of cystic or carneous degeneration.”

2. Carneous-colored.

   “Prothorax bright green, narrow, the dorsal middle with a broad carneous stripe continuous with that the head, entire, each side of this a black line dilating posteriorly.”

   “Secondaries dark fuscous with a carneous shade which obtains on the fringes .”

   “A carneous fringe each side of the body, just above the legs.”