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EARTH COLOR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A colored mineral used as a pigment

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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 material (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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