Sepia vs Loligo - What's the difference?
sepia | loligo |
(archaic) The cuttlefish.
A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
(colour) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
(colour) Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
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A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.
*1658 , (Thomas Browne), The Garden of Cyrus :
*:the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo .
* 1882 , Popular Science (volume 21, number 46, October 1882, page 755)
Loligo is a synonym of sepia.
As nouns the difference between sepia and loligo
is that sepia is the cuttlefish while loligo is a member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.As an adjective sepia
is Of a dark reddish-brown colour.sepia
English
(wikipedia sepia)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
- Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia , drained of colour and light.
See also
* black and white * color * cuttlefish * ink sac *Anagrams
* ----loligo
Noun
(en noun)- the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.
