The rostral and the labial shields are uniform yellowish-white, rarely with a few small, blackish spots or with brown borders.
Grey above, with 35 to 40 blackish spots on the body, the anterior largest and darkest; a lateral series of smaller spots or vertical bars.
The chin and throat are yellowish-white, rarely with some blackish spots.
Pale brown or greyish above, with small dark brown or blackish spots or with more or less distinct darker and lighter longitudinal streaks.
The lower parts are whitish or pale greyish, withblackish dots, of which there is a series of larger ones along each side of the belly.
In this geographical race melanic specimens occasionally occur, which are dark brown or blackish above, the lower parts not differing from those of the typical form.
A blackish band or a mere line extends obliquely from the eye to the first lateral spot; below this the upper lip is whitish, yellowish, or pinkish, with or without dark vertical bars on the sutures between the labial shields.
Lower parts grey, spotted with black and white, or blackish speckled with white, the end of the tail usually yellow or with yellow spots.
A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
The upper surface of the male is rich blackish green with a metallic luster.
From itsblackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.
Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots.
It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead.
Upon this ground is stamped the decoration,--the eagles in the blackish purple of baked manganese, the castles without additional colour, so as to be distinguished only by their outline from the yellowish surface of the tile.
The back is blackish with the feathers edged with white.
This Puffin is similar to the common Puffin of the east, excepting that the blackish band across the throat extends upwards in a point to the bill.
Winter birds have the crown mixed with white, and the young are blotched with blackish in the wings and tail.
A plain appearing bird, breast and throat grayish and belly white with blackish upper-parts relieved only by a small white spot over the eye.
Plumage blackish brown, adults having the lanceolate feathers on the neck of a golden brown color, and the tail more or less mixed with white.
Plumage gray, changing to blackishabout the head; the back a brownish color.
A blackish patch on the sides of the throat; upper parts brownish with darker markings; under parts white, streaked with brown, much heavier on the flanks.
Differs from the Redhead in the shape of its black bill, its blackish forehead, very light colored back and red eyes, the Redhead having yellow eyes.
They lay from six to sixteen eggs, which have a ground color of buff, heavily speckled, blotched and marbled with blackish brown (1.
Very similar to the preceding, but without the white rump, being of a blackish color instead.
Their plumage is extremely variable, having all of the intergradations from a sooty blackish to the typical bluish gray above, and white below, with breast a rich chestnut color.
In the dark phase they areblackish brown, more or less mixed with rusty, the tail remaining the same as in the light plumage.
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.
Like the old female, but blackish brown above, the wing-coverts maroon-chestnut, and all the upper parts spotted with white instead of ocherous.
Above smoky gray; below white; a dusky band across fore breast; wings and tail blackish brown; primaries and secondaries edged with verditer; outer webs of rectrices washed with verditer.
The relic-bed was a blackish conglomerate of organic débris, about a foot thick, and greatly compressed by the superincumbent gravel.
Underneath these layers was a blackish muddy deposit, extending to an unknown depth, into which the piles were inserted.
They were of a blackish colour, well preserved, and apparently pointed with stone axes.
Below the ordinary peat there is a layer of blackish mud which, on being dried, is combustible, and underneath it lie the stratified layers of ancient lake silt, consisting of a whitish clayey substance.
Underneath these beds lies a blackishpeaty substance, some 3 feet thick, in which, as already mentioned, Strobel detected the remains of a palafitte.
Beneath this was a deposit of blackish mud, mixed with decayed organic matter, and varying in thickness from 2 to 2½ feet, in which the tops of the piles appeared and all the relics were found.
The organic remains, such as staghorn haftings and bone implements, were of a blackish colour, and so much decomposed that few could be preserved from crumbling into pieces.
These pieces were of a blackish colour, remarkably thick, and without any definite form.
The pottery was made of a blackish paste mixed with coarse grains of sand or quartz, and a few dishes were ornamented with patterns of zig-zag scratches separated by parallel lines (=Fig.
The smaller dishes were made of fine homogeneous paste, with very thin walls, smooth surface, and a blackish surface approaching to varnish.
Richards obtained "small large-seeded blackish berries" from the stomach of a female from Ponape.
Adult male: Large sea bird with deeply forked tail; blackishbut wing-coverts paler; head and back glossy purple and blue; breast lighter than belly.
Violent purging soon terminates the disease, death being generally preceded by the evacuation of a quantity of blackish matter.
These continue for a short time, break, discharge their matter, and are followed by a blackish scab.
Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color.
General color of back and sides light silvery gray irregularly suffused with buff and slightly darkened by blackish hair-tips and by appearance at surface of hair-brown basal portion of fur.
Back and sides light ochraceous-buff everywhere clouded by the blackish hair-tips, but these never in excess, except perhaps along middle of back and across lumbar region.
Gray stripe over the eye, and a blackish brown one apparently through it.
Wings and tail blackish brown, the former sometimes, but not always, margined and tipped with dusky white.
Under parts white, heavily streaked withblackish and rufous, the marks on breast feathers being wedge-shaped.
Male and Female -- Mottled blackish brown and rufous above, with a multitude of cream-yellow spots and dashes.
Thus well prepared, the blackish paste in the frame receives the concave designs by the aid of woodcuts, cut in relief.
The four posterior cirri blackish purple; the second, and often the third cirrus, appear as if the colour had been laterally abraded off; these latter cirri have sometimes a tinge of orange.
It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.
A blackishgray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust.
An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules.
The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below.
The head of male is ash-grey, his upper parts brown; threeblackish bars cross the tail; upper parts white-barred and spotted with brown on the breast.
The beet beds were of a deep blackish crimson; and the cucumber vines had yielded up their last delicate gherkins.
The inner part of it contains an irregular, blackish phaeodium, which surrounds and hides the oral half of the central capsule.
Often numerous green, brown, orblackish phaeodellae are scattered through the whole calymma, and sometimes accumulate in a superficial layer on its surface.
The wind was blowing towards us, and we heard the shrapnel's peculiar whistling burst and then the heavy shaking roar of grenaten and over to the right, just at the edge of the wood, I saw rising the blackish smoke of heavy shells.
Shrapnel framed it in a soft billow of clouds, and lower, where grenaten struck the ground, I saw the dissolving blackish smoke.
Have the face blackishand the cheeks wrinkled; the back of the head, down to the shoulders and upper part of the fore-limb is dark reddish-brown.
The Semnopithecus frontatus likewise has a blackish face with a long black beard, and a large naked spot on the forehead of a bluish-white colour.
Walker, is in the genus Bibio, in which the males areblackish or quite black, and the females obscure brownish-orange.
He had an extravagant beard, and also longblackish hair upon his head.
It had ruddy-brown fur, paler on the face, but presenting a blackish tuft on the top of the forehead.
I found two distinct species of it, one having the fur of a blackish colour, the other of a ruddy hue, and ascertained that both feed chiefly on fruits.
Of the approximate size of an English mastiff, this powerful baboon is blackish grey in colour with a tinge of green due to the yellow rings on most of the hairs.
The Semnopithecus frontatus likewise, has a blackish face with a long black beard, and a large naked spot on the forehead of a bluish-white colour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; dark; darkish; dusk; dusky; funereal; grave; sad; sober; somber; swarthy
