albo-, alb-, -albify; albus
(Latin: white; pale)
This unit is directly related to the albumino- unit.
1. Dark coppery red or reddish brown: The shade auburn was Ruth's favorite color, so she had her hair dyed that color!
2. Etymology: from Old French auborne, from Middle Latin alburnus, "off-white, whitish"; from Latin albus, "white".
2. Etymology: from Old French auborne, from Middle Latin alburnus, "off-white, whitish"; from Latin albus, "white".
Auburn came into English meaning "yellowish-white, flaxen", but shifted in the 16th century to "reddish-brown" under the influence of Middle English brun, "brown", which also changed the spelling.
Another source states that it comes from Old French and influenced in the sense by the similarity of the variant spelling abrun to brun, "brown". From Medieval Latin alburnus "whitish" and Latin albus, "white".
1. A patch, splash, or smear of a semiliquid substance applied to something in a crude, hurried, or irregular way: The famous painting looked like a daub, or unskilled paining, and was worth a million Euros!
2. A mixture of clay, lime, and chopped straw: When Tom was building his simple garden shed, he plastered daub onto interwoven rods or twigs to make a wall.
2. A mixture of clay, lime, and chopped straw: When Tom was building his simple garden shed, he plastered daub onto interwoven rods or twigs to make a wall.
daub (verb), daubs; daubed; daubing
1. To put or spread a semiliquid substance such as mud, paint, or cream, on a surface in a crude, hurried, or irregular way: The boys daubed slogans all over the walls.
2. To paint or to apply paint crudely: The famous painted just daubed various colors of paint in a skilful manner and produced a fantastic painting!
3. Etymology: from Old French dauber, "to whitewash, to plaster", probably from Latin dealbare, from de-, "thoroughly" + albare, "to whiten" from albus "white".
2. To paint or to apply paint crudely: The famous painted just daubed various colors of paint in a skilful manner and produced a fantastic painting!
3. Etymology: from Old French dauber, "to whitewash, to plaster", probably from Latin dealbare, from de-, "thoroughly" + albare, "to whiten" from albus "white".
exalbuminous (adjective) (not comparable)
Referring to particular seed having no albumen around the embryo: Exalbuminous conditions of certain seeds are those without albumen (starchy and other nutritive material in a seed, stored as endosperm inside the embryo sac, or as perisperm in the surrounding nucellar cells; any deposit of nutritive material accompanying the embryo).
