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EARTH COLOR

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• EARTH COLOR (noun)
The noun EARTH COLOR has 1 sense:

1. a colored mineral used as a pigment

Familiarity information: EARTH COLOR used as a noun is very rare.

• EARTH COLOR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A colored mineral used as a pigment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("earth color" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

pigment (dry coloring matter (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint etc))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earth color"):

sienna (an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment)

ocher; ochre (any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment)

umber (an earth pigment)

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