ochre
Meaning of ochre
noun
- An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- Money, especially gold.
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
verb
To cover or tint with ochre.
adjective- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
- The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
- The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
Information about ochre
- The plural form of ochre is: ochres.
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Hyphenation of ochre
ochre
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- ochre is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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