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Piceous

Piceous \Pic"e*ous\, a. [L. piceus, fr. pix, picis, pitch.] Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

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piceous

a. Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

Usage examples of "piceous".

Foothills stretched out their legs and rucked up the land in untidy grass, where the piceous thick of Rudewood like a black and black-green rash tided toward the trains path and even in places stretched sparse little hands of forest to the edges of the track.