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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pigment/ˈpɪɡmənt/
▶noun
- 1 the natural colouring matter of animal or plant tissue.
- 2 a substance used for colouring or painting, especially a dry powder which constitutes a paint or ink when mixed with oil or water.
– derivatives
pigmentary adjective,
pigmentation noun.
pigmentary adjective,
pigmentation noun.
– origin ME: from L. pigmentum, from pingere ‘to paint’.
'pigment' also found in these Oxford entries:
albino
- alizarin
- base
- bice
- bilirubin
- biliverdin
- bistre
- black
- blue
- body colour
- brown
- burnt ochre
- cadmium yellow
- carbon black
- carmine
- carotene
- Chinese white
- chlorophyll
- chrome yellow
- cobalt blue
- colourant
- emulsion
- erythrocyte
- gamboge
- green
- grey
- impasto
- ivory black
- kumkum
- lake
- lampblack
- leucistic
- lightfast
- litharge
- lithopone
- lutein
- lycopene
- madder
- massicot
- melanin
- mosaic gold
- ochre
- oil paint
- orpiment
- pale
- Paris green
- photopigment
- phytochrome
- pink
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