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brownish-black

ADJECTIVE
  1. of black tinged with brown

How To Use brownish-black In A Sentence

  • Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said. The Lovecraft News Network
  • Brownish-black may indicate chronic mercurial poisoning caused by the formation of sulfide of mercury in the tissues.
  • Cassie had luxurious brownish-black hair, which was tied back into a bouncy ponytail.
  • -- "Ears oval, with many distinct folds, naked except at the base; tragus securiform; fur thick, close, fuscous-black; or dark fuscous-brown above; beneath paler, except on the throat, the hairs being conspicuously tipped with grey, the upper hairs being all white at their base; face nude, and the membrane dark brownish-black" (_Jerdon_). Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • If the tube C is strongly heated at some point near the middle, the arsine is decomposed while passing this point and the arsenic is deposited just beyond the heated point in the form of a shining, brownish-black mirror. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
  • At the Lower East Fork locality nontronite was observed as brownish-black spherules, 0.6 mm in diameter, perched on microcrystals of quartz associated with calcite rhombohedra.
  • She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes. The Titan
  • Electric eels range from gray to brownish-black in color with some yellowish coloration on the anterior ventral portion of the body.
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