Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like ocher; consisting of ocher.
  • In botany, same as ocherous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Ocherous.

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  • adjective ocherous

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Examples

  • They appear to be a composition, and are of three or four distinct shades, the darkest a brown approaching to black, the next a warm or red brown, and the lightest, which forms the ground work, an ochery white.

    A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805

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