petit-gris

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French

Etymology

Compare German Grauwerk for the fur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə.ti.ɡʁi/
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Noun

petit-gris m (plural petits-gris)

  1. a Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), which in colder areas (i.e. Russia whence fur has been imported) has more gray or white fur (and therefore has also been called Sciurus cinereus)
  2. a gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus)
  3. a Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus)
  4. fur of any such animal
  5. a paintbrush from such a fur
  6. an escargot petit-gris, a garden snail (Cornu aspersum, syn. Helix aspersa)
  7. a grey knight or dirty tricholoma, a mushroom of species (Tricholoma terreum, syn. Tricholoma myomyces)
  8. petit-gris de Rennes, a certain cultivar of melon
  9. a gray feather obtained from a female ostrich under her venter
    Coordinate term: petit-noir

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French petit-gris.

Noun

petit-gris m (invariable)

  1. fur of the animals signified above in the French section