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Definition of "greyish-brown" [greyish-brown]

  • Of brown tinged with grey (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "greyish-brown" in a sentence
  • "Their thick winter coats are heavy with water, making dark and drear their dry shades of greyish-brown hair."
  • "The velvety bark sac spider Clubiona corticalis is perhaps the smartest; dark greyish-brown, with a tan flare over the top of the abdomen that highlights a central, backward-pointing, dark streak."
  • "Left to cook hamburgers one night when my parents were at bridge club, she put the greyish-brown lump of dead cow flesh down in front of me and proceeded to tell me about tapeworms."