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noun
Any color in plant or animal cells.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To add color or pigment to something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: paint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: coating, coat, coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
Narrower terms: acrylic, acrylic paint, antifouling paint, coat of paint, distemper, enamel, encaustic, finger paint, fingerpaint, house paint, housepaint, oil paint, semigloss, spray paint, water-base paint
noun
dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
Narrower terms: chlorophyll, chlorophyl, bacteriochlorophyll, phycobilin, phycoerythrin, phycocyanin, titanium dioxide, titanium oxide, titanic oxide, titania, cobalt blue, cobalt ultramarine, earth color, mosaic gold, stannic sulfide, carotenoid, animal pigment, cerulean blue, chrome green, Hooker's green, chrome yellow, bister, bistre, flavonoid, Indian red, ivory black, iron blue, Prussian blue, Payne's grey, Payne's gray, alizarin, alizarine, bole, lake, orange, watercolor, water-color, watercolour, water-colour, retinene, retinal, Paris green, sepia, porphyrin, heme, haem, hematin, haemitin, protoheme, hemosiderin, haemosiderin, ultramarine, ultramarine blue, photopigment, cadmium yellow, verdigris, cupric acetate, white lead, ceruse, lead carbonate, zinc white, Chinese white
noun
any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
verb
color or dye with a pigment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
verb
acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hue
History
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Across languages
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
