The seeds are small, round, brownish-black, and resemble those of the Common Cabbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

His feathers are brownish-black or bronze, and his tail often spreads out like a fan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven O'Clock Stories] Reference

The long drooping feathers of the emu are brownish-black in color, and covered with hairy fibres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

After moistening, a brownish-black coating develops on the silver sheet in the presence of sulphur.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 Blow pipe assaying] Reference

When a color is other than black (a dark shade of grey or brownish-black), the eye wants to see black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drive-By-Shooting Sunday: Spiritual Tramp] Reference

In the presence of columbium the solution first becomes blue and then changes to a turbid brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 Blow pipe assaying] Reference

But the true delicacy is a softer, richer, brownish-black creature, without preservatives if at all possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Pudding] Reference

The brownish-black reptile hissed, slowly uncoiling from its position near the settee and rose upward, its hood opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of The Tiger]

She saw them appear out of the hall closet, their brownish-black bodies moving like silent, deadly wraiths toward the bed where she lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of The Tiger]

The air contaminated with nitrogen oxide turns brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pravda.Ru] Reference

His body was wrapped in a loose woollen gown of brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference

A white teardrop shaped patch surrounds the brownish-black eye.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He was of a brownish-black color and very like a large, woolly ram.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference

The wings are pure white or white spotted with black or brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

Fur ranging from brown to brownish-black, otherwise as in last species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Dark juveniles have a brownish-black belly and a small white breast patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

The color is almost a brownish-black, or perhaps black with brown highlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion World of SL] Reference

He had a fine head, great brown eyes, very long ears and curly brownish-black hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference

Variations are a result of melanin, which is a brownish-black pigment found in fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Reference

The under part is a brownish-black, with a few buff streaks upon the throat and breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

One of the brownish-black animals is already being trained at the Walsrode bird park near.    From Wordnik.com.  [News24 Top Stories] Reference

Squash bug adults are brownish-black bugs that reach about five-eighths of an inch in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evansville Courier & Press Stories] Reference

The insect is a small, brownish-black snout beetle, somewhat less than one-half inch in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

A brownish-black colour is produced by as little as one part of bismuth in 200,000 of solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

The last step is the drying out of the leaves in an oven, where they turn a brownish-black color.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And on the right, distant a couple of miles, up welled a great brownish-black mass from the fire itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference

The color of the former is dark brownish-black; the unplumed head and throat are red; the throat is full of wrinkles and warts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference

He caught the creature, which was then of a green hue; but, on placing it on an old log, the colour changed to a brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Ash-grey above; white in the under parts; quills, tail-feathers at the tip, and band on the wings when expanded, brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference

In one place, however, it seems for all the world as if there were a miniature Gothic chapel built of dark, brownish-black lava.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference

Molybdenum: solution slowly turns brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 Blow pipe assaying] Reference

"Really only two distinct kinds -- our native brownish-black bees, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature's Serial Story] Reference

A brownish-black variety is common, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Upper parts brownish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference