ochreous

English

Adjective

ochreous (comparative more ochreous, superlative most ochreous)

1. Alternative form of ochrous
   • 1835, The American Journal of Science, volume 28, page 122:

     The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.

   • 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Lover”, in Encounters, page 117:

     The white-walled drawing-room, dim in the ochreous twilight of drawn blinds, was hung with Richard's Italian water-colours and other pictorial mementos of the honeymoon […]

Anagrams

• ocherous