Pigment vs Crayon - What's the difference?
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(biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
(obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
* Dryden
(dated) A crayon drawing.
* 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
(dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Pigment is a related term of crayon.
As nouns the difference between pigment and crayon
is that pigment is pigment while crayon is a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.As a verb crayon is
to draw with a crayon.pigment
English
(wikipedia pigment)Noun
(en noun)- Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
- Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Derived terms
* pigmentaryDerived terms
* pigmentationAnagrams
* ----crayon
English
(wikipedia crayon)Noun
(en noun)- Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
- But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
