ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ochreous

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Ochreous is an adjective meaning Alternative form of ochrous.

Meaning

Alternative form of ochrous.

Example Sentences

The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.
The white-walled drawing-room, dim in the ochreous twilight of drawn blinds, was hung with Richard's Italian water-colours and other pictorial mementos of the honeymoon[…]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ocheraceous, ochrey, ochry, squarrous, ocreated, orangeish.

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