Sentence examples for blackish colour from inspiring English sources

They identified microscopic structures called melanosomes which contain the pigment melanin, which gives either reddish or blackish colour to hair, feathers and fur.

Thus, the blackish colour occupies the larger area with the fuzzy contour described above.

B. Detail of ligule; note the blackish colour of the free portion.

Interestingly, the black patches seem to be composed of lead oxide (which, as PbO2 Plattnerite, could also contribute to the blackish colour of the patch), mixed calcium and copper carbonate (Ca0.6Cu0.4CO3) with the excess of copper in form of mixed Cu(OH 2/CuO in a ratio of 3 1.

The cap surface is silvery-grey and covered with concentrically patterned darker scales of a grey, brown or blackish colour that grow paler toward the cap margin, Secretan noting its resemblance to the cap of Sarcodon imbricatus.

Lateral roots that appeared dead (blackish colour) together with organic matter debris were removed from the tray with an eyedropper.

This bird has distinctive ear tufts, with upper parts that are mottled with darker blackish colouring and tawny and the wings and tail are barred.

The manganous (Mn2+) form is oxidized to manganic (Mn4+) which is blackish in colour giving rise to the black colour of leachate as observed in this study.

The chacma, which lives in southern Africa south of the Zambezi River, is brown or blackish in colour.

The blue painting is blackish in colour, with dark spots at intervals where thick blobs of pigment were deposited by the brush the so-called heaped and piled effect.

The upper shell (carapace) of Blanding's turtle averages about 20 cm (8 inches) in length; it is smooth, rounded, and elongate with yellow markings on a blackish ground colour.