testaceous (teh-STAY-shuhs) adjective

testaceous (teh-STAY-shuhs) adjective

   1. Having a shell.

   2. Having the reddish brown color of bricks or baked clay.

[From Latin testa (shell).]

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  "I am informed by Mr. F. Smith that the male ants of several species
   are black, the females being testaceous."
   Charles Darwin; The Descent Of Man; 1871.

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