yellow ochre

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   pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica

   Synonymsyellow ocher

   Broaderocher

Questions about yellow ochre

What does yellow ochre mean?

yellow ochre means "pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica".

What is another word for yellow ochre?

Close synonyms include yellow ocher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yellow ochre a common word?

yellow ochre 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.