ochre
IPA: ˈoʊkɝ
noun
- A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- (slang) Money, especially gold.
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of okra. [The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.]
verb
- To cover or tint with ochre.
adjective
- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
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Examples of "ochre" in Sentences
- RNA is in ochre, protein in blue.
- It may be colored using red ochre.
- Its also known as the ochre threadtail.
- The stonework is a distinctive ochre hue.
- Its also known as the 'ochre threadtail'.
- Such as red and blue or orange red and ochre.
- Proteins are colored in blue and RNA in ochre.
- Ochre threadtails can fly backwards and sideways.
- The cap is in diameter, convex, and russet to ochre.
- To manufacture ground ochre, ochre clay is first mined from the ground.
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