pigment
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Definitions
Noun
dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
Noun
any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
Noun
a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; "artists use `paint'' and `pigment'' interchangeably"
Verb
acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
Verb
color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph"
More General Terms
coat
coating
color
color in
coloring material
colorise
colorize
colour
colour in
colouring material
colourise
colourize
hue
More Specific Terms
acrylic
acrylic paint
alizarin
alizarine
animal pigment
antifouling paint
bacteriochlorophyll
bister
bistre
bole
cadmium yellow
carotenoid
cerulean blue
ceruse
Chinese white
chlorophyl
chlorophyll
chrome green
chrome yellow
coat of paint
cobalt blue
cobalt ultramarine
cupric acetate
distemper
earth color
enamel
encaustic
finger paint
fingerpaint
flavonoid
haem
haemitin
haemosiderin
hematin
heme
hemosiderin
Hooker''s green
house paint
housepaint
Indian red
iron blue
ivory black
lake
lead carbonate
mosaic gold
oil paint
orange
Paris green
Payne''s gray
Payne''s grey
photopigment
phycobilin
phycocyanin
phycoerythrin
porphyrin
protoheme
Prussian blue
retinal
retinene
semigloss
sepia
spray paint
stannic sulfide
titania
titanic oxide
titanium dioxide
titanium oxide
ultramarine
ultramarine blue
verdigris
water-base paint
watercolor
water-color
watercolour
water-colour
white lead
zinc white