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An orange of low brightness and saturation
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brownness
Word definitions for brownness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being brown.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.