pigment
Any color in plant or animal cells.
Example
“Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.”
Other meanings
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
“Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.”
Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
A kind of
- coloring material
Kinds of pigment
- titanium dioxide
- cobalt blue
- mosaic gold
- animal pigment
- chrome green
- chrome yellow
- ivory black
- iron blue
Related words
- biopigment
- copigment
- cytopigment
- depigment
- interpigment
- lipopigment
- nonpigment
- phaeopigment
- pheopigment
- photopigment
- phytopigment
- pigmental
Word history
From Latin "pigmentum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pigment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.