Shades of Gray
I haven’t been able to
find 50, but discovering 15 different word parts signifying various shades of
gray isn’t shabby.
- ash-gray: tephr- (tephroite) and has- (hasard) and spodio- (spodiosite)
- blue-gray: caesi-
(caesius)
- brown-gray: bis- (biset)
- dark bluish-gray: peli- (peliosis)
- dusky-gray: phaeo-
(phaeophyll) and pheo-
(pheochrome)
- flax-gray: grid-
(gridelin)
- green-gray: glas-
(glastum)
- iron-gray: feran-
(ferant)
- pale-gray: polio-
(poliomyelitis)
- pearl-gray: gris-
(griseous)
- silvery-gray: glauco-
(glaucodont)
- white-gray: can-
(canescent)
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