olive-brown

1. 1.

   of a brown color with a greenish tinge

   Similarchromatic

Questions about olive-brown

What does olive-brown mean?

olive-brown means "of a brown color with a greenish tinge".

How many syllables are in olive-brown?

olive-brown has 4 syllables and divides as o-li-ve--brown under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is olive-brown a common word?

olive-brown is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.