Usually means: Dark brown earthy pigment color.
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  1. umber: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. umber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. umber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. umber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. umber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Umber, umber: Wordnik
  7. umber: Wiktionary
  8. umber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. umber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. umber: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. umber: Dictionary.com
  12. umber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Umber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Umber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. umber: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. umber: Rhymezone
  17. Umber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. umber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Umber: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. umber: Free Dictionary
  21. umber: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. umber: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. umber: Mnemonic Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. umber: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. UMBER: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. umber: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
noun:  A grayling.
noun:  A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.
adjective:  Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
verb:  (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
noun:  Alternative form of umbrere [(historical) In medieval armour, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceguard was sometimes attached.]

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