Crossword clues for brownness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brownness
Brownness \Brown"ness\, n. The quality or state of being brown.
Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair);
Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there.
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
brownness
n. The characteristic of being brown.
WordNet
brownness
n. an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown]
Usage examples of "brownness".
Beneath his window was a neat garden, scruffy now with autumn brownness, in the center of which was a formal quatrefoil pond, the water green with algae and rippling in the brisk wind.
To illustrate with the example you've offered -- brown hair versus blond -- let's imagine a dominant gene, B, for brownness, and its recessive counterpart, W, for whiteness.