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Definition of Olive-brown
1. Adjective. Of a brown color with a greenish tinge.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olive-brown
Literary usage of Olive-brown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Bill and feet brown, olive-brown; throat black-brown white-streaked; crop, belly,
and vent white. Brazils. Female, T. Jamaicensis, Lath. ..."
2. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"Above plain olive-brown (varying from nearly hair brown to between broccoli brown
and raw-umber) ; ° a conspicuous orbital ring and loral region pale buff, ..."
3. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"The outer member of this geminate line near the inner margin expands into a dark
olive-brown spot, accentuated externally by a silvery white mark and ..."
4. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1885)
"General colour above nearly uniform olive-brown, the feathers of the back slightly
mottled with dusky centres ; lesser wing- coverts like the back ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"Color above lateral stripes olive brown. Interspaces light greenish. Spots of
chestnut scales, with black edges and interspaces. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"... of the occiput and over the ear-coverts, forming there a black patch, feathers
on nape of the neck and shoulders olive brown, almost black at the tips, ..."
7. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"Upper plumage olive-green ; the wings dark brown, the quills edged externally
with rufescent olive-brown; tail and upper tail-coverts rufescent: lores and ..."
8. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1890)
"Back olive brown, with numerous lengthened buffy-white spots 21. ... Back olive
brown with narrow whitish-yellow stripes on upper part 22. ..."
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