pigment : Idioms & Phrases


animal pigment

  • noun pigment occurring in animals
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Black pigment

  • a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar.
Webster 1913

Pigment cell

  • (Physiol.), a small cell containing coloring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.
Webster 1913

primary color for pigments

  • noun any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing
    primary color for pigments.
    • the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow
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primary colour for pigments

  • noun any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing
    primary color for pigments.
    • the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow
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Urinary pigments

  • (Physiol. Chem.), certain colored substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc., present in the urine together with indican, a colorless substance which by oxidation is convertible into colored bodies.
Webster 1913