Definition/Meaning of aeneous

• English - Adjective: aeneous ( comparative more aeneous , superlative most aeneous ) Bronze colored . 1865 , Thomas Vernon Wollaston, Coleoptera Atlantidum: Being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Madeiras , Salvages , and Canaries , page 16 , They are unquestionably distinct from the B . velatus , — being not only more æneous and metallic , with their pubescence even coarser still , and of a much…
• English - Alternative forms: aëneous æneous
• English - Etymology: From Latin aēneus ( “ made of copper or bronze ” ).