First Known Use: 1646
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testaceous
adjective tes·ta·ceous \tes-ˈtā-shəs\
Definition of TESTACEOUS
1
: having a shell <a testaceous protozoan>
2
: of any of the several light colors of bricks
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Origin of TESTACEOUS
Latin testaceus, from testa shell, earthen pot, brick
Rhymes with TESTACEOUS
audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious
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