Definitions
color or dye with a pigment
Word origin
From 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.
Used in a sentence
“Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.”
“Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.”
“Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Coloring matter”7 letters
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