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ocher

/oh-ker/US // ˈoʊ kər //UK // (ˈəʊkə) //

赭石,赭色,赭红色,赭红

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
    • : the color of this, ranging from pale yellow to an orangish or reddish yellow.
    • : Obsolete. money, especially gold coin.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the color of ocher.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·chered, o·cher·ing.

    • : to color or mark with ocher.

Examples

  • The 45,500-year-old ocher painting depicts a Sulawesi warty pig, which appears to be watching a standoff between two other pigs.

  • Every feature was sharp and the colors were vivid; ocher, green, and silver gleaming with light.

  • Female—The female is much more of an ocher brown than the male, and without the stripe on the neck or the lead color of the bill.

  • She shall be veiled to her eyes, with a bit of ocher on her forehead.

  • Upper wing-coverts and secondaries fuscous-black (freshly molted feathers blacker) narrowly edged with olive-ocher.

  • It is made of white and reddish-brown bark, and sometimes the white ones are colored with red ocher.

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