ochre
noun
ochreous
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a word derived from
ochre.
Example Sentences
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His destination, a depression forty feet down into the flowing ochreous void, had in the past proved a honeypot.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
The males were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next below, ochreous cave-earth, from one foot to fifteen feet in thickness.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
The hind wings are pale ochreous: they are brownish along the hind margin, and have a light fringe.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
Its fore wings are ochreous grey, with a narrow brown costal margin, and a triangular brown patch on the costa.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
