| incarnadine | flesh-pink; blood-red. | |
| fuscous | brownish-gray in color. | |
| kermes | a red dye derived from dried females of a scale insect, /Kermes ilices/, native to the Mediterranean region. | |
| cochineal | a dye similarly from /Dactylopius coccus/, which lives on certain New World cacti. | |
| lateritious | brick-colored. | |
| aeneous | bronze-colored. | |
| bistre | a brown pigment from wood soot. | |
| puccoon | one of certain plants producing a red dye. | |
| fulvous | yellow-brown or yellow-gray. | |
| ponceau | a bright red-orange color. | |
| glaucous | light blue-green; covered with a silvery bloom. | |
| orchil | a violet substance obtained from certain lichens, chiefly /Roccella/ ssp.; a lichen yielding this dye. | |
| peachblow | a pale purplish pink. | |
| cudbear | a violet dye obtained from certain lichens, esp. /Lecanora tartarea/. | |
| perse | colored a deep shade of blue or purple. | |
| anil | a shrub, /Indigofera suffructicosa/, yielding indigo; the color indigo. | |
| merle | blue-gray with black markings, used esp. to describe a dog's coat. | |
| atroceruleous | blue-black. | |
| fuliginous | sooty; soot-colored. | |
| animal black | boneblack, ivory black, or similar pigments of calcined animal matter. | |
| lyard | (Brit. dial.) white- or grey-streaked. | |
| blae | blue-gray or -black; bleak; sunless. | |
| griseous | pearly gray. |