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undermarkings

undermarkings noun: markings that appear on the underside of something. Usually used to describe an animal.

Noun

undermarkings (uncountable)

  1. Markings that appear on the underside of something. Usually used to describe an animal.
    • Dr. Latham says, that the eggs are of a cinereous grey, whimsically marked with deep brownish black patches of irre gular sizes and shapes, besides some undermarkings of a dusky hue.1812, British Zoology, volume 2, Wilkie and Robinson, page 145
    • Before flying away, he strutted his feathers so that I could observe his yellow undermarkings.1997, David Loxterkamp, A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor, UPNE, page 285

Origin of undermarkings

From under- + markings.

Questions about undermarkings

What does undermarkings mean?
Undermarkings means markings that appear on the underside of something. Usually used to describe an animal.
What part of speech is undermarkings?
Undermarkings is a noun.

Words near undermarkings in the dictionary

  1. undermargins
  2. undermark
  3. undermarked
  4. undermarketed
  5. undermarking
  6. undermarkings
  7. undermarks
  8. undermasculinization
  9. undermasculinized
  10. undermassive
  11. undermasted

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