The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OCHRE
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More clues leading to the result OCHRE
- Buff coach horse every so often
- Brownish-yellow section of brooch revealed
- Missile launch site shelters right in the shade
- Chore mixing paint?
- Scot’s cry of surprise about native pigment
- Mineral containing chestnut pigment
- Yellow mineral found around western half of Chad
- Gold chain seen in stock exchange regularly
- Yellowish ring sent up by fag
- Regularly mined boron rocks that create pigment
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What does OCHRE mean?
OCHRE noun- An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- Money, especially gold.
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
- To cover or tint with ochre.
- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
- The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
- The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.