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ashcoloured

ashcoloured is the alternative form of ash-colored.

Meaning of ash-colored

Adjective

ash-colored (comparative more ash-colored, superlative most ash-colored)

  1. 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

Forms of ashcoloured

comparativemore ashcoloured
superlativemost ashcoloured

Questions about ashcoloured

What is ashcoloured the alternative form of?
Ashcoloured is the alternative form of ash-colored.

Words near ashcoloured in the dictionary

  1. ashcans
  2. Ashchenazim
  3. Ashchurch
  4. Ashchurch Rural
  5. ashcolored
  6. ashcoloured
  7. Ashcott
  8. Ashcraft
  9. Ashcrafts
  10. Ashcroft
  11. ashcroftine

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