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Greyish brown

noun
1.
A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color.  Synonyms: dun, fawn, grayish brown.






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"Greyish brown" Quotes from Famous Books



... profile it was not unlike those of the apes we had encountered, but it was evidently even more formidable, for projecting from its nose was a stout, sharp horn, similar to that of a rhinoceros, while a pair of long tusks projected from its upper jaw. In colour the animal was a greyish brown, dark on the upper part of the body, fading to a dirty white on the lower. A serrated ridge of what might be loose skin ran along its back from the nape of the neck to the extremity of the tail, and the body appeared to be thickly ...
— The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn • Harry Collingwood

... Mandelli on the 21st and 28th of April, are rather broad ovals, somewhat pointed towards the small end. The shell is fine, but has only a little gloss. The ground-colour is white or slightly greyish white, and they are uniformly freckled all over with very pale yellowish and greyish brown. The frecklings are always somewhat densest at the large end, where in some eggs they form a dull brown cap or zone. In some eggs the markings are everywhere denser, in some sparser, so that some eggs look yellower or ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume



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