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1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. "Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame." (Thomson) "Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide." (Tennyson)
2. <botany> Having a brown colour tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. <zoology> Of a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
Origin: L. Luridus.
(01 Mar 1998)
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