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Raw sienna   /rɑ siˈɛnə/   Listen
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Sienna  n.  (Chem.) Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.
Burnt sienna, sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire.
Raw sienna, sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.






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... obconic, plane or depressed, or funnel-shaped, the margin strongly inrolled when young, in age simply incurved, the margin plane or repand and undulate. The color varies from ochre yellow to dull orange, or orange ochraceous, raw sienna, and tawny, in different specimens. It is often brownish at the center. The surface of the pileus is minutely tomentose with silky hairs, especially toward the center, and sometimes smooth toward the margin. The flesh is 3—5 mm. at the center, and thin toward the margin. The gills ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson



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