Meaning
3 sensesAny color in plant or animal cells.
Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
Pigment
пигме́нтpigmént
any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
Farbstoff
пигме́нтpigmént, краси́тельkrasítelʹ
dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
(obsolete)Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
Examples
9 sentencesMake up has often used carmine as a pigment to achieve bright red shades.
Adrenochrome is a pigment.
This pigment is the best.
Plant pigments such as the carotenoids and chlorophylls will react similarly when exposed to light of high intensity.
The choroid is a highly vascularised, darkly pigmented layer found in between the retina and the sclera of the eye.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to painFrom Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
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Forms
plural: pigmentsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating:paint