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Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown.

Black bears have occasionally very black coats, but the majority have a brownish underwool.

It is a brownish amorphous solid, which is insoluble in water.

It is Venetian in character, of a brownish tint, with two white enamel rings round the body.

A very thin soil covers the Edwards Plateau, but on the Llano Estacado are brownish and reddish loams derived from the sediments of a Neocene lake.

They are both reddish yellow and brownish black (according to individual variation) in skin colour, with head hair often tending to russet, and body hair of two kinds - black and bristly on the upper lip, chin, chest, axillae and pubes; and yellowish and fleecy on the cheeks, back and limbs.

It is a brownish black solid, insoluble in solutions of the alkaline sulphides.

The antlers are smooth, and brownish white in colour, but the hoofs jet black.

The colour is blackish, or of a dark olive-grey or brownish grey with round black spots or dots.

They may be recognized by the brownish violet colour they impart to a borax bead when heated in an oxidizing flame.

The prevailing colour of the last-named species, as well as P. ursinus of Tasmania, is brownish grey.

This animal is a brownish or reddish species which is heavily mottled with light patches.

Tobacco can cause yellow or brownish stains.

Molly dug through her purse to retrieved a familiar brownish cube, like the ones Katie'd eaten to stay alive in Hell.

The wing-quills are brownish black, banded with mottled white, and those of the tail, except the middle pair, which are wholly greyish brown, are banded with mottled white at the base and the tip, but dark brown for the rest of their length.

The caliche has often a granular structure, and is yellowishwhite, bright lemon-yellow, brownish or violet in colour.

The general colour is blackish, with a more or less marked grey or brownish tinge on the hair of the shoulders, and sometimes of chestnut on the head.

The coloration of tsetse-flies is sombre and inconspicuous; the brownish or greyish-brown thorax usually exhibits darker longitudinal markings, and when the insect is at rest the abdomen or hinder half of the body is entirely concealed by the brownish wings.

When boiled, the body becomes of a brownish colour and on this account the species is sometimes termed the "brown shrimp."

The fur is usually brownish, but there are black, blackish-grey and yellowish varieties.

The brownish colour of some slates is due to limonite and haematite, but magnetite occurs in the darker coloured varieties.

By passing ammonia over heated chromic chloride, the nitride, CrN, is formed as a brownish powder.

It is never crystallized, but may have a fibrous or microcrystalline structure, and commonly occurs in concretionary forms or in compact and earthy masses; sometimes mammillated, botryoidal, reniform or stalactitic. The colour presents various shades of brown and yellow, and the streak is always brownish, a character which distinguishes it from haematite with a red, or from magnetite with a black streak.

The other breed, called the Cambridge, is much more variegated in colour, and some parts of the plumage have a bright metallic gloss, while the chicks are generally mottled with brownish grey.

It builds a rude nest among the reeds and flags, out of the materials which surround it, and the female lays four or five eggs of a brownish olive.

In colour it is usually brownish black above, with the nose, chin, cheeks and throat tending to whitish, and the under parts brownish chestnut; while the feet and tail are black and blackish.

Most silver foxes have dark necks and in some the dark shade runs a quarter, half-way, or three-quarters, or even the whole length of the skin, but it is rather of a brownish hue.

The streak, or colour of the powder, is brownish or light yellow, rarely white.

The colour of the cut wood is a very light yellowish or brownish white, the hard parts of the annual rings being of a darker shade.

The eyes are red and injected; the tongue is somewhat swollen, and at first covered with a thin white fur, except at the tip and edges, but later it is dry, and the fur yellow or brownish.

The plant is a herbaceous perennial with a long, branched root-stock creeping through the mud, about 3/4 inch thick, with short joints and large brownish leaf-scars.

Barium nitride, Ba 3 N 2, is obtained as a brownish mass by passing nitrogen over heated barium amalgam.

The wood when young is white, but old heartwood is yellow or brownish.

The most modern and the most generally accepted method is volumetric, and is based on the reaction between zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, by which insoluble zinc ferrocyanide and soluble potassium chloride are formed; the presence of the slightest excess of potassium ferrocyanide is shown by a brownish tint being imparted by the solution to a drop of uranium nitrate.

Thus obtained it is a brownish solid, which readily fuses and resolidifies to a soft leaden-grey mass.

It is of a brownish colour,.

The larva is a thick white grub with a brownish head, bearing fleshy tubercles along its side.

Considerable burns on the face or body may result from the application of sulphuric acid in the practice known as "vitriol-throwing," a brownish black eschar serving to distinguish the burns produced by this acid from those of other corrosive fluids.

In the males the horns are generally angulated, and marked by fine transverse wrinkles; their colour being greenish or brownish.

A pure-bred Southdown sheep has a small head, with a light brown or brownish grey (often mouse-coloured) face, fine bone, and a symmetrical, well-fleshed body.

When finely ground these crystals yield a brownish red powder which dissolves slowly in acids, the most effective solvent being a boiling mixture of 8 parts of sulphuric acid and 3 of water.

Brownish cherts are found in the English Greensand; these often contain remains of sponges.

The Arabian, or Nubian, ibex (C. nubiana) is characterized by the more slender type of horn, in which the front edge is much narrower; while the Simien ibex (C. vali) of Central Abyssinia is a very large and dark-coloured animal, with the horns black instead of brownish, and bearing only slightly marked front ridges.

The fur is of fine quality, consisting of a short soft whitish grey under-fur, brown at the tips, interspersed with longer, stiffer and thicker hairs, shining, greyish at the base, bright rich brown at the points, especially on the upper-parts and outer surface of the legs; the throat, cheeks, under-parts and inner surface of the legs brownish grey throughout.

In addition to the reddish or brownish argillaceous matrix it contains fresh or decomposed crystals of volcanic minerals, such as felspar, augite, hornblende, olivine and pumiceous or palagonitic rocks.

Formerly only what exuded spontaneously was gathered; this was often of a brownish colour; but now the flow of the gum is aided by incisions cut near the root, and the product is the fine, white, flaky variety so much valued in commerce.

Six weeks after inoculation brownish, sunken lesions were observed on the base of stems of seedlings inoculated with all anastomosis groups.

While the picture above shows the more typical brownish plumage they also have pale morphs some of which can be almost white.

They show up brownish in this enlarged scan but as they float around they appear silvery.

Beside black with a brownish tinge like me you can find dun (gray) or red also.

She was spooning a brownish looking mixture from a big stone jar into a silver tureen.