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ochre

/ˈoʊkɚ/ noun C2
  1. A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour. (countable, uncountable)
  3. The stop codon sequence "UAA". (colloquial, countable, uncountable)
  4. Money, especially gold. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable)
  5. Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites. (countable, uncountable)

Plural ochres

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