Pigment
/ˈpɪɡ.mənt/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any color in plant or animal cells.
"Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring."
- 2 a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating wordnet
- 3 A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
"Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide."
- 4 dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) wordnet
- 5 Wine flavoured with spices and honey. obsolete
"Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]"
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- 6 any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color wordnet
Verb
- 1 To add color or pigment to something. transitive
- 2 color or dye with a pigment wordnet
- 3 acquire pigment; become colored or imbued wordnet
Example
More examples"It is said that Lycopene, a pigment found in tomatoes, makes your skin beautiful and helps you lose weight."
Etymology
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.