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VERMILION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

Synonyms:

orange red; scarlet; vermilion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("vermilion" is a kind of...):

red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

Derivation:

vermilion (color vermilion)

vermilion (of a vivid red to reddish-orange color)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

Synonyms:

Chinese-red; cinnabar; vermilion; vermillion

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

vermilion (a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color vermilion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "vermilion" is one way to...):

redden (make red)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

vermilion (a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge)

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