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mouse-colored

mouse-colored adjective: having a dull brown or dull gray color.

Adjective

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

  1. Having a dull brown or dull gray color.
    • He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House

Forms of mouse-colored

comparativemore mouse-colored
superlativemost mouse-colored

Words formed from mouse-colored

Phrases with mouse-colored

Questions about mouse-colored

What does mouse-colored mean?
Mouse-colored means having a dull brown or dull gray color.
What part of speech is mouse-colored?
Mouse-colored is an adjective.

Words near mouse-colored in the dictionary

  1. mouse spider
  2. mouse spiders
  3. mouse stock
  4. mouse wheel
  5. mouse wheels
  6. mouse-colored
  7. mouse-colored antshrike
  8. mouse-colored antshrikes
  9. mouse-deer
  10. mouse-deers
  11. mouse-ear

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