Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to ocher; consisting of or containing ocher: as, ocherous matter. Also
ochrous . - Resembling ocher in color; specifically, in zoology and botany, ol a brownish-yellow color; light-yellow with a tinge of brown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective US Alternative form of
ochrous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
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Apparently the piece had then been placed in the hands of some person of infinite leisure equipped with a pot of ocherous paint, varnish, and a set of flexible combs.
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Powered forever by the inexhaustible Sun, impervious to the cold, Sojourner may to this day be wearing grooves in that ocherous desert floor.
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Powered forever by the inexhaustible Sun, impervious to the cold, Sojourner may to this day be wearing grooves in that ocherous desert floor.
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It is only a little village, composed of about twenty houses, grouped on a slightly undulating bank, formed of ocherous earth and clay.
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These small torpedoes were, of course, neither waterlogged double coronas jettisoned by a listing Cuban freighter nor a species of blind Amazon trout but, rather, a sampling of the ocherous projectiles fired into the river night and day from the fundaments of Pucallpa.
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These small torpedoes were, of course, neither waterlogged double coronas jettisoned by a listing Cuban freighter nor a species of blind Amazon trout but, rather, a sampling of the ocherous projectiles fired into the river night and day from the fundaments of Pucallpa.
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Desert reached subtly colored to ocherous cliffs afar.
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