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piceous adj

(obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch; pitchlike, pitchy. (chiefly entomology) Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown. piceous:

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