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greyish brown

NOUN
  1. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
    she wore dun

How To Use greyish brown In A Sentence

  • Most artists' canvases are linen (made from flax, Linum usitatissimum), a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing.
  • The horn becomes greyish brown, short, strongly downcurved.
  • Pocock (1933), for example, described it as 'Uniformly blackish brown above and on the limbs and tail; with a grey patch above the eye and grey on the upper half of the cheeks; the sides of the muzzle, back of the ears, chin, and forepart of the throat white, but the hinder part of the throat, the breast, and the belly either a dusky greyish brown, or clean white'. That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
  • Most artists' canvases are linen (made from flax, Linum usitatissimum), a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing.
  • -- Ears short, oval, triangular; tragus short, rounded at tip; membrane attached to base of outer toe; all toes short; membrane over the arms very hairy, some cross-lines of hair on the interfemoral membrane; fur long, deep fuscous brown at base, chestnut at the tip; beneath greyish brown. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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