SEPIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sepia mean? 

• SEPIA (noun)
  The noun SEPIA has 3 senses:

1. a shade of brown with a tinge of red

2. rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes

3. type genus of the Sepiidae

  Familiarity information: SEPIA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPIA (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 ("sepia" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sepia" is a kind of...):

pigment (dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Type genus of the Sepiidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Sepia; Sepia

Hypernyms ("Sepia" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Sepia"):

cuttle; cuttlefish (ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell)

Holonyms ("Sepia" is a member of...):

family Sepiidae; Sepiidae (true cuttlefishes)

 Context examples 

Her best tile got a splash of water, which left a sepia tear on the Cupid's cheek.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)