REDDISH BROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reddish brown mean? 

• REDDISH BROWN (noun)
  The noun REDDISH BROWN has 1 sense:

1. a shade of brown with a tinge of red

  Familiarity information: REDDISH BROWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDDISH BROWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shade of brown with a tinge of red

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

burnt sienna; mahogany; reddish brown; sepia; Venetian red

Hypernyms ("reddish brown" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reddish brown"):

brick red (a bright reddish-brown color)

copper; copper color (a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper)

Indian red (a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians)

 Context examples 

The answer, revealed in the first maps made from New Horizons data, turns out to be shades of reddish brown.

(Pluto: The 'Other' Red Planet, NASA)

Splenic pulp seen grossly as a reddish brown substance, due to its abundance of red blood cells, consisting of splenic sinuses and the tissue intervening between them (splenic cords).

(Murine Red Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)