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Cyanus is a genus of flies in the family Calliphoridae.
Usage examples of "cyanus".
There were serpents of cyanus that reared themselves up towards the neck, three upon either side, like the rainbows which the son of Chronos has set in heaven as a sign to mortal men.
On the body of the shield there were twenty bosses of white tin, with another of dark cyanus in the middle: this last was made to show a Gorgon's head, fierce and grim, with Rout and Panic on either side.
The band for the arm to go through was of silver, on which there was a writhing snake of cyanus with three heads that sprang from a single neck, and went in and out among one another.
There were serpents of cyanus that reared themselves up towards the neck, three upon either side, like the rainbows which the son of Saturn has set in heaven as a sign to mortal men.