Definition of "luteous" [lu•te•ous]

• Of a light or moderate greenish yellow. (adjective)

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• "The sun climbed on, a ball of luteous fire baking the air dry."
• "There, at the feet of a learned thaumaturge, an aged man with long, wispy mustaches and a skin the color of luteous ivory, he had learned much."
• "Vertex luteous; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista plumose; disk of the thorax and a dot on each side of the tip of the abdomen deep black; tarsi piceous; wings slightly greyish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about half its length from the border and by twice its length from the præbrachial transverse."