单词 | olive brown |
释义 | > as lemmasolive brown olive brown n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > greenish brown olive brown1774 sedge1927 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 265 The colour is generally an olive brown, variegated with one that is more dusky. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 318 Pileus olive brown..edge turned down. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 101 Eggs [Yellow Wagtail]..Some are uniform pale olive-brown, some darker olive, while others are nearly uniform pinkish-brown. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 957 The round-headed apple-tree borer, Saperda candida, is a beautiful olive-brown beetle. 2000 W. Sollors Interracialism 449 In my film the elder Gamboa will be colored olive brown. < as lemmas |
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