dark
Webster Dictionary
destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion
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irradiation
Webster Dictionary
the apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus
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dark
Webster Dictionary
a dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted
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dingy
Webster Dictionary
soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty
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sooty
Webster Dictionary
having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark
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dark
Webster Dictionary
evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed
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brunet
(ˈnɛt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a person, usu. a male, with dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.
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brunette
(ˈnɛt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(of a person) having dark hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.
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yuen
Webster Dictionary
the crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape
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black
(æk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations having dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
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biotite
(ˈbaɪ əˌtaɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a mica occurring in black, dark brown, or dark green sheets and flakes: an important constituent of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
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pittacal
Webster Dictionary
a dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue
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pyrargyrite
Webster Dictionary
ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster
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caucasian
(ɔˈkæs ɪk, -ˈkæz-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
of, designating, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to curly hair, and light to very dark eyes and orig. inhabiting Europe, parts of North Africa, W Asia, and India.
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umber
(ˈʌm bər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown.
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jaguar
Webster Dictionary
a large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger
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umber
Webster Dictionary
of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky
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lower
Webster Dictionary
to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest
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beta-carotene
(beta-carotene)
Princeton's WordNet
an isomer of carotene that is found in dark green and dark yellow fruits and vegetables
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target cell
(target cell)
Princeton's WordNet
an abnormal red blood cell with the appearance of a dark ring surrounding a dark center; associated with anemia
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brunet
(brunet, brunette)
Princeton's WordNet
marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
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brunette
(brunet, brunette)
Princeton's WordNet
marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
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puce
(puce)
Princeton's WordNet
a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
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maroon
(maroon)
Princeton's WordNet
a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
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selenium
Webster Dictionary
a nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9
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bull pine
(ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, bull pine, Pinus ponderosa)
Princeton's WordNet
common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
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western yellow pine
(ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, bull pine, Pinus ponderosa)
Princeton's WordNet
common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
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ponderosa
(ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, bull pine, Pinus ponderosa)
Princeton's WordNet
common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
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ponderosa pine
(ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, bull pine, Pinus ponderosa)
Princeton's WordNet
common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
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pinus ponderosa
(ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, bull pine, Pinus ponderosa)
Princeton's WordNet
common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature
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