What is the meaning of Petit-gris?
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)
a gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus)
a Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus)
fur of any such animal
a paintbrush from such a fur
an escargot petit-gris, a garden snail (Cornu aspersum, syn. Helix aspersa)
a grey knight or dirty tricholoma, a mushroom of species (Tricholoma terreum, syn. Tricholoma myomyces)
petit-gris de Rennes, a certain cultivar of melon
a gray feather obtained from a female ostrich under her venter
fur of the animals signified above in the French section
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