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pigments

pigments is the plural of pigment.

pigments is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pigment.

Meaning of pigment

Noun

pigment (plural pigments)

  1. Any color in plant or animal cells.
    • Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
  2. A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
    • Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
  3. (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
    • Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 61

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Phrases with pigments

Questions about pigments

What is pigments the plural of?
Pigments is the plural of pigment.

Words near pigments in the dictionary

  1. pigmentlike
  2. pigmentocracies
  3. pigmentocracy
  4. pigmentocratic
  5. pigmentous
  6. pigments
  7. pigmenturia
  8. pigmies
  9. pigmoid
  10. pigmoids
  11. pIgMs

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