cinereal

[markasch]

I ran across this word while reading John Banville's novel The Sea. I immediately found three usages. Ashen is one, with connections to incinerate and cinder, among others. A second usage was to describe the gray matter of the brain or spinal chord (the cinerea). And the third was a character in a self-published web serial by John McRae. I had never come across the word before, not being a brain surgeon or a web serial reader (though I did study Latin in high school!). Thought it was interesting.

[Slava]

Taken up and treated here.