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Example sentences for "blackish brown"

  • But the odd thing is that its young are marked all over with large blotches of blackish brown, while their tails are ringed with black like that of the tiger.

  • In color it is blackish brown, with a little white upon the muzzle, and in height is about five feet six inches at the shoulder.

  • It is blackish brown in color, with a lighter band which runs from the shoulders along the sides and across the flanks, as far as the root of the tail.

  • The markings are usually in very dark, brownish black or blackish brown.

  • The root is of a blackish brown colour, as big as one’s little finger, but growing long, with some threads thereat; and by the small string it quickly spreads over the ground.

  • The skin of the tuber is of a rusty or blackish brown color.

  • The plumage on the back is of a blackish brown, the feathers being edged with rust colour, the rump is red, the breast of a rusty yellowish grey striped with brown, and the remainder of the lower part of the body white.

  • The spaces round the eyes are blackish brown, the beak light horn colour, the feet black and sprinkled with a greyish kind of dust.

  • The chrysalis is blackish brown, the skin is rather roughened, and the ring divisions are paler brown.

  • The chrysalis, which is enclosed in a tightly woven cocoon {66} spun up between leaves, usually dead ones, is blackish brown with a violet bloom upon it.

  • Sometimes the general colour is blackish brown, with ochreous bands and streaks.

  • The ground colour in the male ranges from pale whitish or brownish ochreous, with strong markings, to blackish brown, with the markings obscured.

  • Larger and darker, a faint vinous wash on breast and abdomen; blackish brown above.

  • The ground-color is white, closely speckled with dull greenish brown and occasional small spots of various shades of lilac, the larger end rather thickly marked with blotches of blackish brown.

  • This species is blackish brown above, with light brown edgings to the feathers, and white below, except the chest, which is brownish, streaked with black.

  • The plumage of this small Buzzard (length 30 inches) is blackish brown, the naked head being red.

  • The ground color of the eggs vary from white to a deep greenish blue and the markings of blackish brown vary in endless patterns, some eggs being almost wholly unspotted.

  • In summer their general plumage is blackish brown, with a white patch around the eye, and white belly.

  • This moth has the front wings of a blackish brown colour, having lighter irregular bands varied with brown and grey, above and below.

  • Another species (Tabanus bovinus) is twelve lines in length, and of a blackish brown.

  • When we break these lavas, which might be taken at some distance for calcareous stone, we find in them a blackish brown nucleus.

  • That description of fetid limestone called by the German mineralogists stinkstein is always of a blackish brown colour.

  • These lavas, destitute of amphibole and mica, are of a blackish brown, often varying to the deepest olive green.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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