blackish clouds. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Chalice" (1942) is painted ghostly white within blackish wash. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Senses to the Extreme] Reference
She suddenly said she could make out the letters S-O-N in blackish paint in the upper right area of the mural. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Her flaxen hair streamed wild and stringy over back and shoulders, she wore some kind of blackish felt tunic with long sleeves, and beneath it tight-legged trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
"I bet we get a kind of blackish white," said Pee-wee. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade at Temple Camp] Reference
"From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it's kind of blackish stuff ... (and) has hairy strands on it.". From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Wings blackish brown; stigma and veins black; halteres apple-green. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
I looked at Pop's big reddish-blackish eyebrows and he was frowning at. From Wordnik.com. [Shenanigans at Sugar Creek] Reference
Melanism: an abnormal or unusual darkening: a suffusion with blackish. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The doctor bent over the hand; it was discolored with small blackish spots. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Wings grey, luteous at the base, blackish towards the tips; veins black, robust. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
This common blackish or earth-colored bug is usually called the squash stink-bug. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
The under surface of the cap is brown or blackish in the mature plants of poisonous species. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
These are in pairs, and the base of each pair is surrounded by several dry, blackish scales. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The colour is blackish, or of a dark olive-grey or brownish grey with round black spots or dots. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Head smooth; antennæ piceous; tarsi whitish; wings blackish cinereous, veins black; halteres snow-white. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The whole surface of the ocean seemed a vast plain furrowed with huge blackish waves fringed with white foam. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Prolonged immersion has the same effect, pine wood becoming a dark gray, while oak changes to a blackish brown. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
And not only are the shows of modern sculpture, but of objects of unpainted, unadorned, blackish and brownish metal. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture For The Soul] Reference
Tough times: Perhaps Burnett the Performer's blackish humor can be traced to the traumas endured by Burnett the Person. From Wordnik.com. [A Comedy Comeback] Reference
The superciliary lines have blackish rather than brownish streaks, and the scapulars do not have four or five dark bars. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Their bodies were disfigured by their torments, and their faces discolored by a blackish hue which they had contracted. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
When the product is crushed small, some of it will be found blackish, and the rest of a yellowish brown: this is quite as it should be. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
In a few days after they are laid they hatch and out of each crawls a small, long-legged blackish or greenish young bug called the nymph. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
The masses vary in color from light brown to deep blackish green, and in size from that of a pin head to several centimetres in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Lower down the stratum becomes more compact and is of a bluish or blackish colour, and its fossil contents are in a fine state of preservation. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
But one plant life you don't want to see on your roof is Gloeocapsa magma, a blackish algae that thrives on moisture seems to have an affinity for material used in some roofing products. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the Day: Get rid of roof algae, which can damage shingles] Reference
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