luteously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "THough Coriander be a tetrous and graveolent herb, yet is it ſowen and cultivated in Gardens; for its grains by frication depoſe their ingratefull odour, and become ſuaveolent; its ſurcle is very ſlender, round, cubitall, and ramous; its leafes are at firſt like them of Adiantum, laciniated and variouſly incided, for the part next the caul, is leſſe ſected, the remoter, more; its flowers are white on large umbells; its ſeed made round, firme, ſomwhat ſtriated, and inane, which at firſt is green, then luteouſly white, its root ſhort, hard and fibrous; the odour of its leafes is putrid and tetrous."
- "With no eyes for the evasive beauty of the college chapel, its buttresses and architraves now luteously entwined with wreathes of yellow fog, he crossed the dusk-filled quadrangle towards Mongo’s lighted window, puzzled a little. . . ."
- "Black, densely luteously pilose, rostrum nearly cylindrical, about one-third shorter than the prothorax, at the base higher than broad and wider than in front, moderately densely punctate, sides in the basal half punctate-striate."
- "Her yellow eyes glowed luteously in the dark light near them."
Etymology
From luteous + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more luteously (comparative)
most luteously (superlative)