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Brownness

The quality or state of being brown.

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Buff 76% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Caramel 76% connected

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

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Chestnut 76% connected

The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

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Chocolate 76% connected

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

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Coffee 76% connected

The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and…

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Hazel 76% connected

A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The Amer…

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Mahogany 76% connected

A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

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Mocha 76% connected

A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea.

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Puce 76% connected

Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

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Sepia 76% connected

The common European cuttlefish.

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Umber 76% connected

A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and mangane…

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Brown 74% connected

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Brown 74% connected

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

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Synonym 1

Brown 92% connected

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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