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adjectiveof an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
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- smoke tree greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor
- belted kingfisher greyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest
- ringdove greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged
- papio ursinus greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa
- potato tuber moth greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm
- greater whitethroat greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts
- golden yarrow greyish woolly leafy perennial with branched stems ending in leafless stalks bearing golden-yellow flower heads; dry areas western North America
- grey matter greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
- gray sole greyish-white flesh of a flatfish
- ceryle alcyon greyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest