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Definition of Sootier

Sootier
Sooty Soot"y, a. [Compar Sootier; superl. Sootiest.] [AS. s?tig. See Soot.] 1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. ``Fire of sooty coal.' --Milton. 2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. ``The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.' --Milton. Sooty albatross (Zo["o]l.), an albatross (Ph[oe]betria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie. Sooty tern (Zo["o]l.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.

Meaning of Sootier from wikipedia

- Soot (/sʊt/ suut) is a m**** of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is more properly restricted to the...
- chestnut upperparts and deeper colored below. T. l. burleighi is duller and sootier with less distinct tail markings, T. l. mesophilus has paler underparts...
- black of the crown extending to the intersca****rs. The underside is a sootier gray overall. A. a. apache (van Rossem, 1938) – The range of this subspecies...
- yellow on the belly. The ****es are similar, but females have a duller, sootier crown, and young birds have a browner crown and upperparts, and their wing...
- this species its English and scientific names. Young birds have duller, sootier plumage with a brown tone to the underparts, and olive-brown thighs. The...
- recorded at any of the province's 40 monitoring stations, with significantly sootier air than Windsor, Hamilton, Kingston, and Chatham". In September 2011,...
- and uppertail coverts have a slight blue gloss. Juveniles are duller and sootier than adults and have grayish white to white tips on most of their body...
- south to coastal central California. (Weckstein et al. 2002) Darker and sootier than townsendi, with the largest and most plentiful breast spots (Weckstein...
- tenebrosa is also similar to the nominate, but its upperparts are darker and sootier and the breast more grayish. C. r. tremula is similar to tenebrosa but...
- white line is at the bill's base. Immatures' black and green plumage is sootier than adults' and the red and yellow paler. Their bill is browner without...