What is "blackish"

Usage examples of "blackish".

The general tints are rusty red on the head, greyish on the shoulders, blackish in the middle of the back, rusty on the haunches.

All but four of the houses had been swallowed by the jungle, and only sections of those four remained visible, embedded like moldering gates in a blackish green wall of vegetation.

The pain was making him nauseated again, as if the blackish purple stain of his bruises were seeping up into his stomach and filling him with bad gases.

It was the dry season, but dry season or not, blackish gray clouds always shrouded these peaks.

Silver blares of wintry sunlight edged the blackish gray clouds scudding overhead, and the wind was a steady pour off the sea.

Before him lay the moat of red dirt with its hedgerows of razor wire, and beyond that loomed the blackish green snarl of the jungle.

When the sun sank I sat on the terrace meditating and contemplating the colors of the darkly shimmering well-nigh blackish green foliage of the magnolias, the snow of the mountains opposite, glittering golden in the evening light, above it the luminous, pale greenish blue sky, and below the purplish violet mountain slopes and the soft steel blue lake.

Then, at the very end of the straight lane, where the alternating brownish red beeches and blackish green spruce appeared very small, and the light green mossy path gleamed up and narrowing met the sky, I saw the galloping beast approaching.

These were old markings though, and my attention returned to the fresh wound: I thought I noticed something embedded there, a slight, blackish protrusion under the slick coat of discharging blood.

There was quite a bit of blackish blood spattered around on the sheets now from the punctures in his hide.

There, a mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves.

We now began to climb the blackish rocks, amid unforeseen stumbles, and over stones which the ice made slippery.

Numerous blackish patches spread on the surface, showing the formation of fresh ice.

The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave its tread upon it.

Here there were orchards instead of vineyards, row after row of squat close-grown trees with blackish green leaves and small blue flowers that exhaled an overpowering sweetness.