Sepia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dark brown ink or pigment originally prepared from the secretion of the cuttlefish.
  • n. A drawing or picture done in this pigment.
  • n. A photograph in a brown tint.
  • n. A dark grayish yellow brown to dark or moderate olive brown.
  • adj. Of the color sepia.
  • adj. Done or made in sepia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The cuttlefish.
  • n. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
  • n. A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
  • n. A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
  • adj. Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. The common European cuttlefish.
  • n. A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under cuttlefish.
  • n. A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
  • adj. Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A black secretion or ink produced by the cuttlefish; also, in the arts, a pigment prepared from this substance.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of cuttles, typical of the family Scpiidæ, and containing such species, as the common or officinal cuttle, S. officinalis. See also cuts under cuttlefish, Dibranchiata, and ink-bag.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • n. Cuttlebone: more fully called os sepiæ. It is an antacid, used in dentifrices, and given to canaries. See os and sepiost.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. type genus of the Sepiidae
  • n. rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes
  • n. a shade of brown with a tinge of red
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