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Definition of Russety
1. a. Of a russet color; russet.
Definition of Russety
1. Adjective. Of a russet colour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Russety
1. russet [adj] - See also: russet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Russety
Literary usage of Russety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1864)
"tinctly to the eye, where it is slightly rib- round, russety, corrugated cavity.
Calyx bed. Skin smooth, greenish yellow, marked small, set in a narrow ..."
2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1853)
"The fruit ia below medium, roundish-flat, dull, greenish, russety yellow, mostly
covered with dull, deep red in the sun, with numerous large, ..."
3. Elliott's Fruit Book: Or, The American Fruit-grower's Guide in Orchard and by Franklin Reuben Elliott (1858)
"... suffused slightly underneath skin, and with many small greenish dots that
become russety in sun ; stem, medium to long; cavity, round, shallow, regular; ..."
4. The Horticultural review and botanical magazine (1854)
"Calyx open, and set in a narrow, mostly shallow, and russety basin. ... Medium to
largo size, oblong pyriform, greenish yellow, with some russety specks ..."
5. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"patches of darker red on a russety ground on the side exposed to the sun; ...
Colour yellowish green, with many russety dots on the shaded side; palish red, ..."
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