pigment
Definitions of pigment
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a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hairtypes:blauwselused to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tingecochenillea red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insectsloodacetaat, loodsuikera poisonous white solid (Pb[CH3CO]2) used in dyeing cotton and in making enamels and varnisheswedea blue dyestuff obtained from the woad planthennaa reddish brown dye used especially on hair
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dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)synonyms: verfstoftypes:bladgroenany of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring formschromaatgroenany of a class of green pigments consisting of chrome yellow and iron blueroetkleura water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood sootalmagraa red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmeticssepiarich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishescadmiumpigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orangeloodwita poisonous white pigment that contains leadzinkwita white pigment used in house paints; consists of zinc oxidemelanineinsoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and featherskleioker, okerany of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigmentomberan earth pigmentrodopsinea red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light
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