How To Use Blackish In A Sentence
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Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said.
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The Mamirauá Reserve is home to the two narrow endemics, white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea
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Body black, with large, dense, not very profound punctures; elytra with the punctures towards the suture longitudinally confluent; a sub - lunate or triangular, dull rufous spot rather behind the middle of each elytrum; tergum with the punctures not smaller at the posterior mar - gins of the segments; feet dirty yellowish; thighs blackish above —
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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In the dried skin, the maxilla is blackish except for the tip, which is paler.
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a few whitish bristles; pectus whitish; hind borders of the abdominal segments ferruginous; legs testaceous; femora striped with black; tarsi black, ferruginous at the base; wings limpid, blackish at the tips; costa deep black, incrassated in the middle; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The disease progresses up the plant and the trifoliate leaves soon develop symptoms with lesions, initially appearing as irregular light brown spots and later turning a blackish-brown color.
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_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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-- Pale sandy red, darker on the top of the head, the shoulders and fore part of back; two large patches behind the ears; the feet and the under-parts are pale buff yellow; ears moderately large, subovate and well clad, rusty yellow, paler on the under part; whiskers very long, brown, a few brownish white; toe-pads blackish.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Before long heads began poking above the water's surface, and eventually big critters with blackish shells and spraddled legs began pulling themselves onto shore.
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I bet we get a kind of blackish white," said Pee-wee.
Tom Slade at Temple Camp
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It's blackish and translucent, but it doesn't have a shadowlike solid outline.
Mistborn
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Terrestrial mammal diversity is smaller because the habitat is often flooded; two narrow endemic primates inhabit this region, the white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea
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During both seasons the dirty white of the face and cheeks is only relieved by the dark facial streak, which is short and narrow, but defined by a sprinkling of rufous hairs; the lateral and pygal bands are very faintly indicated, the dark bands being more rufous, the light band rather paler than the grey fawn colour of the upper parts of the body; breast and belly white; tail and ears moderate in length, the former blackish-rufous.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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They gave me what they called a beefsteak pie -- a tough crust and under it some blackish cubes carved out of the muscle of an antediluvian ox-and for this delicious fare and a glass of stout I paid three shillings and odd pence.
Afoot in England
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_ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish.
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Two tests are suggested by Golodetz (1) the addition of one or two drops of a reagent consisting of five parts of concentrated sulphuric acid and three parts of formaldehyde solution, which colours cholesterol a blackish-brown, and (2) the addition of one drop of 30 per cent. formaldehyde solution to a solution of the substance in trichloracetic acid, when with cholesterol an intense blue coloration is produced.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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Face silvery; antennæ testaceous, black towards the tips, arista full as long as the thorax; thorax with three cupreous stripes; pectus silvery; abdomen with cupreous purple bands and with whitish spots along each side; legs testaceous, tarsi and hind tibiæ black; wings slightly greyish, blackish brown along the costa and about the transverse veins, veins black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein curved inward, discal transverse vein undulating; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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On either side of me stand scrawny vines abundant with blackish grapes.
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It has a thin, black bill, dark gray to blackish legs, dark patches on either side of the upper breast, and dark ear patches.
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-- Above sub-rufescent cat-grey, washed with blackish brown on the back and sides and front of face, rufescent yellow beneath; the hind limbs more rufous; fur close, adpressed, rather harsh; tail with a black tip.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Fore wings slightly hooked, with an interior undulating blackish-brown line; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform white, black-bordered, forming a triangular spot and an anterior point; a small exterior white costa, with mark.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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They are cut in the rock _in situ_, hard, blackish serpentine, which is a soft grey colour on the exposed surfaces.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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A lustrous, blackish - brown rare earth mineral consisting primarily of cerium , erbium , titanium , uranium, and yttrium.
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Most are blackish brown with a white fringe of hair decorously surrounding the face.
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Cut the lobster in half and remove the tomalley, or liver (that soft, blackish-green stuff in the stomach).
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Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The lowest bed is an obliquely laminated, blackish, indurated mud, with distinct traces of vegetable remains.
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The leaves of the plant are rough from numerous stiff hairs while the veins of the leaf have a blackish tinge that produces a characteristic shadowy complexion to the foliage.
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Head chalybeous; antennæ red; legs tawny, hind tibiæ piceous towards the tips, hind tarsi piceous towards the base; wings blackish, darker along the costa, cinereous towards the tips with the exception of the costa; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Wings grey, luteous at the base, blackish towards the tips; veins black, robust.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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With hook and line we caught chiefly a blackish fish of the size of a haddock, called cole-fish by the seamen, but differing much from that known by the same name in Europe; and another of the same size, of a reddish colour, with a little beard, which we called night-walkers, from the greatest number being caught in the night.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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Her wings turned from silver bright to blackish dark.
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They have here also the amphisbaena, or two-headed snake, of a grey colour, mixed with blackish stripes, whose bite is reckoned to be incurable.
A Voyage to New Holland
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In his second story that day, however, following his hospital visits, he would describe "Disease X," and victims, who have "neither a burn or a broken limb," wasting away with "blackish" mouths and red spots, and small children who "have lost some hair.
Greg Mitchell: How Press Censorship Hid the Shocking Truth About Nagasaki A-Bomb 65 Years Ago
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The sheer cliff face is composed of a ‘vast stratification of blackish-grey slate, unvaried in its whole height by a single change of shade’.
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blackish clouds
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Bill of drake blackish, of duck greyish.
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Pocock (1933), for example, described it as 'Uniformly blackish brown above and on the limbs and tail; with a grey patch above the eye and grey on the upper half of the cheeks; the sides of the muzzle, back of the ears, chin, and forepart of the throat white, but the hinder part of the throat, the breast, and the belly either a dusky greyish brown, or clean white'.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
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She suddenly said she could make out the letters S-O-N in blackish paint in the upper right area of the mural.
Boing Boing
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Description size: 3 - 4.5 mm shape: mote or less triangular colour: pale brown with blackish patches on the elytra recognition: body clothed in short hairs; last abdominal segment visible; antennae slightly serrated: each hind femur bears a tooth; large emarginated eyes
7. Important pests in storage
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Danlo scooped some frozen seal blood out of a skin and dumped the blackish, crystalline mass into Soli's pot.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior border; a blackish band near the base, abbreviated hindward; a large blackish spot on the reniform mark, and a diffuse blackish spot near the tip of the costa; exterior and submarginal lines brown, double, denticulated, with the space along their borders somewhat clouded.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Light morphs have brown upperparts with a blackish cap and white collar, white underparts, and yellowish sides of the neck.
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In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band.
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Anthea was wearing green wellies, a blackish anorak, and a horsey headscarf damp with rain.
SPLITTING
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We waited several minutes in the office until finally he returned carrying a gourd, incrusted on its hollow inside surface with a kind of blackish substance.
Gold of the Gods
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On the remiges the markings are quite regularly hexagonal in shape; and on the upper coverts of the tail and on the rectrices they are accompanied with numerous ferruginous blotches, some of which are irregularly scattered over the whole surface of the vane, while others, marked in the center with a blackish spot, are disposed in series along the shaft and resemble ocelli.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
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In West Africa, there are three recognised types: nigra, widespread in Mali, with small tubers and blackish skin; rubra, with small reddish-gray or reddish-yellow tubers; and alba, which is whitish.
Chapter 19
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+Gills+ free, ventricose, narrowing at both ends, thin, first a pink color, then afterward brown or blackish-brown.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Blackish-brown feathers run from the tips to the primary feather (one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing) tectrices.
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Head pale yellow, black hindward, white beneath; antennæ pale luteous, third joint very short, arista bare; scutellum white; pectus with a white spot on each side; abdomen white at the tip; middle legs with testaceous tibiæ and tarsi; hind wings blackish, cinereous hindward; halteres snow-white.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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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.
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Jerdon's description is "entire head iron-grey; orbits and base of ears deep orange fulvous; whole body above, with parachute and tail, a mixture of blackish and golden yellow; limbs deep orange ochreous; margin of parachute albescent; beneath the neck whitish; rest of the lower parts pale orange-red; tip of tail black; ears nearly nude; tail sub-distichous.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Head testaceous; antennæ testaceous, third joint short, conical; arista plumose; abdomen deep black; legs testaceous; femora black; wings limpid white, with three broad blackish stripes, the second emitting a branch from its outer side to the costa,
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head reddish; antennæ testaceous at the base; thorax testaceous in front; wings greyish, blackish-brown along the costa, and with three subcostal blackish-brown patches, the third continued along the veins towards the hind border.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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-- "Deep blackish-brown, with a slight rufous reflection in a certain light; fur short, close, soft, and adpressed; tail thick at the base, with a few long very slender straggling hairs along its entire length; ears small and rounded; snout elongated.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Chalice" (1942) is painted ghostly white within blackish wash.
Taking Senses to the Extreme
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Antennæ ferruginous, third joint short, conical, arista bare; pectus slightly covered with cinereous tomentum; legs testaceous, with a few very indistinct blackish marks; fore femora black, testaceous towards the base; fore tibiæ black; fore tarsi snow-white, black at the base; hind tarsi whitish; wings greyish, with two almost obsolete brownish bands; discal transverse vein parted by less than its length from the border and by about four times its length from the præbrachial transverse.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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On the remiges the markings are quite regularly hexagonal in shape; and on the upper coverts of the tail and on the rectrices they are accompanied with numerous ferruginous blotches, some of which are irregularly scattered over the whole surface of the vane, while others, marked in the center with a blackish spot, are disposed in series along the shaft and resemble ocelli.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
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BUDS -- terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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The Minnow hath, when he is in perfect season, and not sick, which is only presently after spawning, a kind of dappled or waved colour, like to a panther, on its sides, inclining to a greenish or sky-colour; his belly being milk white; and his back almost black or blackish.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
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The eggs are not unlike those of the English hawfinch; the ground colour is pale greenish grey, blotched and spotted with blackish brown.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish.
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Head testaceous, face transverse; antennæ testaceous, third joint elongate-conical; arista bare; abdomen blackish blue, second segment very large, third and following not visible; legs testaceous; wings limpid, with four transverse pale brown subcostal streaks; discal transverse vein parted by less than half its length from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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These flowers combine every virtue, the portentous groan of brass, the blackish sheen of crimson: to the eye, the crushable texture of velvet, but to the fingertip, the bruise of baby skin.
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There is one painting of a dead cedar tree, with a blackish, twisted upside-down tornado on a warm desert hillside.
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Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior border; a blackish band near the base, abbreviated hindward; a large blackish spot on the reniform mark, and a diffuse blackish spot near the tip of the costa; exterior and submarginal lines brown, double, denticulated, with the space along their borders somewhat clouded.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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-- Above sub-rufescent cat-grey, washed with blackish brown on the back and sides and front of face, rufescent yellow beneath; the hind limbs more rufous; fur close, adpressed, rather harsh; tail with a black tip.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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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.
Fortune's Favorites
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A lustrous, blackish - brown rare earth mineral consisting primarily of cerium , erbium , titanium , uranium, and yttrium.
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It measures 40-50 cm in length, weighs up to 2kg and has a thick, woolly coat that is dark brown or blackish.
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Renny's claws were embedded in the wiry thews of the jaguar's forearms, streams of blackish blood spilling down his hands as he fought to shred the tendons crushing the life from him.
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The Mamirauá Reserve is home to the two narrow endemics, white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea
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Head whitish; third joint of the antennæ short, conical, whitish, blackish at the tip, arista plumose; thorax with a brown stripe; scutellum whitish; abdomen black; legs whitish, with black bands; wings white, with many blackish spots, some of them confluent; discal transverse vein straight, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by a little less than its length from the præbrachial transverse; halteres whitish.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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-- Deep blackish brown, very slightly rufescent in certain lights; tail slender, nearly naked, very slightly attenuated, compressed at the tip.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Fore wings with three blackish, indistinct, slightly diffuse, zigzag lines, which are slightly bordered hindward with pale yellow; orbicular mark white, punctiform; exterior border slightly angular, hardly oblique, and slightly truncated on the fore half, extremely oblique and with two slight excavations on the hind half; fringe partly white.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Flowers give way in fall to blackish berries which often persist into winter.
Don’t Monkey Around: It’s time to trim your Monkey Grass « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Lamouroux described the fructification as capsules joined to form rather large blackish spots scattered over both surfaces of the frond.
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Head of the female black, shining; thorax with two brown bands which are paler and indistinct hindward; abdomen with a broad black band on each segment; tarsi blackish towards the tips; wings nearly limpid, yellowish along the costa, veins exteriorly with very broad brownish borders, stigma blackish brown.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The swelling protrudes and is easily visible; its blackish coloring gives the disease its name: the Black Death.
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About six days after suffering the infected flea bite, the victim develops a blackish pustule at the point of the bite.
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The colour of a young red wine can vary from blackish purple (as in a vintage port, for example) through many hues of crimson to ruby.
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Generally not suitable for wearing the simple harmonic deep dark tonal cool costume, such as blackish green, brown, dark reddish purple, etc.
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The banded demoiselle males have a metallic bluish-green body with a central band of blackish-blue pigment on the wings.
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3 "" A sombre looking Gudgeon-like fish, back blackish, sides yellowish, punctulate with groups of blackish spots.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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At 11 p.m., it looked like a blackish dark gray B - 2 bomber, but then it shot sharply forward only to slow down and stop.
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Blocking up of the outlet of the sebaceous gland (comedo), which is usually the beginning of an acne lesion, may cause a moderate degree of hyperæmia and inflammation, and a slight elevation, with a central yellowish or blackish point results -- the lesion of _acne punctata_; if the inflammation is of a higher grade or progresses, the elevation is reddened and more prominent -- _acne papulosa_; if the inflammatory action continues, the interior or central portion of the papule suppurates and
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
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This blackish mixture, called meconium, will become her first bowel movement.
Archive 2004-12-01
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Head black above, testaceous beneath; antennæ testaceous; abdomen with four broad abbreviated piceous bands; legs tawny, hind tibiæ black with a tawny apical mark, hind tarsi black towards the base; wings greyish, slightly lurid towards the base, blackish-brown about the exterior part of the costa, veins black, tawny towards the base; halteres testaceous, tawny towards the tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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BUDS -- terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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The superciliary lines have blackish rather than brownish streaks, and the scapulars do not have four or five dark bars
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
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Note: possum, opossum, any of a family (Didelphidae) of American marsupials that usually have a pointed snout and prehensile tail; especially: a common omnivorous largely nocturnal and arboreal mammal (Didelphis virginiana) of North America having grayish to blackish fur with white on the cheeks;
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When pyrogallol is sulphonated with concentrated sulphuric acid a violet-coloured sulphonic acid, soluble in water, is obtained, which, when treated with formaldehyde first in the cold and then when heated, yields a solid deep red-coloured mass, which precipitates gelatine but not aniline hydrochloride, and gives a blackish-brown colour with ferric chloride.
Synthetic Tannins
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In a 3-meter-by - 3-meter pond, there was a blackish-greenish liquid exuding a foul smell.
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Ferrous sulphide was next similarly treated, and gave, after the lapse of a few hours, a copious blackish precipitation of sulphur, and possessing properties similar to the sulphur obtained by dissolving sulphides such as cupric sulphide in dilute nitric acid, in all other respects resembling common sulphur.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
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The hairs are tinged with three bands of dusky rufescent yellow and blackish-brown, the latter being most intense on the face, forehead, head and back (_see_ 'P.Z. S.' 1871, p. 560).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Terrestrial mammal diversity is smaller because the habitat is often flooded; two narrow endemic primates inhabit this region, the white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea
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The most widely distributed vulture in the New World, the Turkey Vulture is a large, predominantly blackish-brown bird.
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Face and pectus whitish; antennæ piceous; abdomen cupreous-black, dull testaceous towards the base; hind legs black, hind tibiæ towards the base and anterior legs dull testaceous; wings blackish, paler along the hind border, veins black, præbrachial vein and discal transverse vein straight; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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BUDS -- terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
