Synonyms:
ocher, ochre
Meaning: of a moderate orange-yellow color
Usage examples
The wound is then tapped with a flat stick to increase the flow of blood, and red ochre is rubbed into it.
His flier was rushing swiftly above a barren, ochre plain--the world-old bottom of a long-dead Martian sea.
The green man was hurrying his captive toward a huge thoat that browsed upon the ochre vegetation of the once scarlet-gorgeous plaza.
She studied the delicate bloom of their cheeks, and wondered what mysterious proportions of white, ochre, and carmine she would have to use to obtain it.