Warbler size; slaty gray head contrasting with olivaceous back; whitish eye-ring distinctive; voice has more of an edge than that of V.
Adult female: Like male but somewhat duller below; ashy of head less pure, glossed with olivaceous and not so abruptly contrasting with yellow of throat; chestnut crown-patch less conspicuous or wanting.
The plumage of adult is sometimes overcast above with a faint olivaceous tinge.
Of the streaked, streaky is this demure and inoffensive bird in the olivaceous plumage, in which we usually see him, and always see her.
Adult female: Similar to male but duller; black of male replaced by slaty with an olivaceous cast.
The freshly shed spores have a greenish-yellow or olivaceous hue, but in time they assume a pale or yellowish-ochraceous hue.
The pileus is usually olivaceous or yellowish-brown, but it may be reddish-brown or tawny-red.
The gills are yellowish, greenish, olivaceous or greenish shades of yellow, gray, purple, almost black.
In a majority of fishes the back is olivaceous or gray, either plain or mottled, and the belly white.
Black pigment seldom changes in spirits, and olivaceous markings simply fade a little without material alteration.
Blue, red, black, and silvery-white pigment are especially characteristic of the male, the olivaceous and mottled coloration of the female.
The fish, especially if it be one which swims close to the bottom, is better protected if the olivaceous surface is marked by darker cross streaks and blotches.
In the open seas, where the water seems very blue, blue colors, and especially metallic shades, take the place of olivaceous gray or green.
The bright hues of these fresh-water fishes are, however, more or less concealed in the water by the olivaceous markings and dark blotches of the upper parts.
The adult fish is whitish, olivaceous on the back, with faint spots on the scales of back and sides.
In the other darters the body is more compressed, the movements less active, the coloration even more brilliant in the males, which are far more showy than their dull olivaceous mates.
Caulolatilus princeps is the blanquillo or "whitefish" of southern California, a large handsome fish formed like a dolphin, of purplish, olivaceous color and excellent flesh.
It isolivaceous in color, the sides golden silvery, with narrow black stripes.
The native goldfish is olivaceous in color, and where the species has become naturalized (as in the Potomac River, where it has escaped from fountains in Washington) it reverts to its natural greenish hue.
The eggs are regular ovals, with a pale-greenish ground, blotched and spotted with a somewhat olivaceous brown.
It resembles Tubifera in its simple sporangia, opening without the aid of a net; it is like Cribraria in the smooth ochraceous-olivaceous spores and granuliferous peridium.
Under parts olivaceous yellow, crossed with numerous close bands of blackish brown.
General colour pale olivaceous yellow, with a few obscure large spots along the body somewhat brighter.
In both sexes in this species the plumage is deep olivaceous brown, the breast pure yellow.
Upper parts dull brown, more or less washed with an olivaceous tinge; tail and its coverts more or less chestnut or ferruginous brown.
These specimens are paler than those of any other subspecies of fasciatus and do not have the olivaceous dorsal coloration present in other subspecies.
The Yellowish Olive under tail-coverts and theOlivaceous dorsum are all evidences of cryptic coloration, and undoubtedly, this bird depends upon hiding for escape from its enemies, since it is a bird of the dense forest cover.
The olivaceous cap with its peculiar involute margin and its radiating stem will greatly assist in its determination.
The genus Gomphidius, placed in this series for other reasons, has dingy-olivaceous spores.
Its color is brassy, olivaceous above, with seven very black stripes along its sides.
In color it is olivaceous or bluish-green, with a distinct dusky spot on the last rays of dorsal and anal fins.
Their ground sometimes presents a greenish-white color, but tends more to olivaceousor dull drab.
A careful observance of the difference in the two grounds, which in the Carolina Rail is a yellow-drab, with a faint olivaceous tinge, will prevent the one from being mistaken for the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olivaceous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
