| 单词 | umber |
| 释义 | umber /um"beuhr/, n. 1. an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber). 2. the color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown. 3. Ichthyol. the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus. 4. North Eng. Dial. shade; shadow. adj. 5. of the color umber. v.t. 6. to color with or as if with umber. [1250-1300; ME umbre, umber shade, shadow < OF umbre < L umbra; in sense "earth" < F terre d'ombre or It terra di ombra] |
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