ash-colored
ash-colored adjective: of the color of ashes; pale grey.
Adjective
ash-colored (comparative more ash-colored, superlative most ash-colored)
- Of the color of ashes; pale grey.
- When the plunderers returned with their prey the ash-colored ants received them as friends, caressed them with their antennæ, offered them food, and taking up their burdens conveyed them to the inner part of the nest. It appeared on farther examination that these ash-colored ants were the slaves of...1823 May, “Sketches of Natural History, No. VIII”, in The Lady's Monthly Museum, volume 17, page 268
- Among these stolen horses were those the Mexicans had captured out of the band of ash-colored ones. If you look carefully, you will see that there are four fine ash-colored animals with the Indians.1913 September, Geo. M. Darley, “Mark Melvin, The Vermonter”, in The Trail: A Magazine "for Colorado.", volume 6, number 4, page 18
ash-colored meaning in Malayalam and Gujarati
ash-colored in Malayalam
- pale gray
- ചാരനിറം cāraniṟaṁ
ash-colored in Gujarati
- ash-colored, ashy
- રાખોડિયું rākhoḍiyũ
Examples of ash-colored in a sentence
- Huber somewat incorrectly terms the rufescent ants, Amazons, and the ash-colored species, Negroes.1823 May, “Sketches of Natural History, No. VIII”, in The Lady's Monthly Museum, volume 17, page 268:
- The ash-colored body on top of the base of the radiating fibers, and called the corpus stratum or optic thalamus (Figure 6c), does not converge to form the afore-mentioned fibers.2012, Charles G. Gross, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, page 208:
Forms of ash-colored
| comparative | more ash-colored |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ash-colored |
| alternative form | ashcolored |
| alternative form | ash-coloured |
| alternative form | ashcoloured |
Questions about ash-colored
- What does ash-colored mean?
- Ash-colored means of the color of ashes; pale grey.
- What is ash-colored in Malayalam?
- Ash-colored in Malayalam is ചാരനിറം (cāraniṟaṁ). See Ash-colored meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use ash-colored in a sentence?
- Huber somewat incorrectly terms the rufescent ants, Amazons, and the ash-colored species, Negroes.
- What part of speech is ash-colored?
- Ash-colored is an adjective.
Words near ash-colored in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ash-colored (page history and authors); રાખોડિયું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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