Meaning of ochreous | Babel Free
Definitions
Adjective. [B2]
Examples
“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.”
“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[…]”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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