pigment

Word family

pig·ment /ˈpɪɡmənt/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

AVPa natural substance that makes skin, hair, plants etc a particular colour 颜料，色素

Melanin is the dark brown pigment of the hair, skin and eyes.

黑色素是头发、皮肤以及眼睛中的深棕色色素。

The artist Sandy Lee uses natural pigments in her work.

画家桑迪·李在她的作品中使用天然颜料。

Examples from the Corpus

pigment• The robe, too, is painted in Prussian blue, a pigment not introduced until the eighteenth century.• So a long hot summer with bright, sunny days well into September will result in a high concentration of both pigments.• This can require a week to die down, and is followed by severe peeling that leaves no brown pigment remaining.• Those cells which can form pigment migrate beneath the skin and enter all the feather germs.• He likens creation to a painter mixing just four pigments to form the likenesses of all things.• These are clear varnishes to which either dyestuffs or transparent pigments, or both, have been added.• The two measurements are necessary, since visual pigments are light sensitive and have characteristic absorption spectra under these different light conditions.

Origin pigment

(1100-1200) Latin pigmentum, from pingere “to paint”

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