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bayness

bayness noun: the quality of being bay in colour.

Noun

bayness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being bay in colour.
    • He was, therefore, carrying in one-half of his sex-cells the factors for greyness, and in the other half those for bayness.1909, The Mendel Journal, numbers 1-3, page 91

Origin of bayness

From bay + -ness.

Questions about bayness

What does bayness mean?
Bayness means the quality of being bay in colour.
What part of speech is bayness?
Bayness is a noun.

Words near bayness in the dictionary

  1. baymen
  2. Baymes
  3. Baynard
  4. Baynards
  5. Bayne
  6. bayness
  7. Baynham
  8. Baynhams
  9. Baynton
  10. Baynton East
  11. Bayo

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