noun [U,C]
1 a substance that exists naturally in people, animals and plants and gives their skin, leaves, etc. a particular colour:
Haemoglobin is the red pigment found in blood.
2 a coloured powder that is mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc:
The wool is coloured using only natural pigment dyes.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pigment is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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