Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to ocher; consisting of or containing ocher: as, ocherous matter. Also
ochrous . - Resembling ocher in color; specifically, in zoology and botany, ol a brownish-yellow color; light-yellow with a tinge of brown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher
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- adjective US Alternative form of
ochrous .
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Examples
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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Apparently the piece had then been placed in the hands of some person of infinite leisure equipped with a pot of ocherous paint, varnish, and a set of flexible combs.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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Powered forever by the inexhaustible Sun, impervious to the cold, Sojourner may to this day be wearing grooves in that ocherous desert floor.
A Space in Time 2002
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Powered forever by the inexhaustible Sun, impervious to the cold, Sojourner may to this day be wearing grooves in that ocherous desert floor.
A Space in Time 2002
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It is only a little village, composed of about twenty houses, grouped on a slightly undulating bank, formed of ocherous earth and clay.
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These small torpedoes were, of course, neither waterlogged double coronas jettisoned by a listing Cuban freighter nor a species of blind Amazon trout but, rather, a sampling of the ocherous projectiles fired into the river night and day from the fundaments of Pucallpa.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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These small torpedoes were, of course, neither waterlogged double coronas jettisoned by a listing Cuban freighter nor a species of blind Amazon trout but, rather, a sampling of the ocherous projectiles fired into the river night and day from the fundaments of Pucallpa.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Desert reached subtly colored to ocherous cliffs afar.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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