whitish


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resembling milk in color not clear

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of something having a color tending toward white

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A few whitish hairs served her for eyebrows; the eyes themselves, of a dull blue, were cold and wan; and her mouth was so formed as to show the teeth, which were crooked, but as white as those of a dog.
Next he took out a double handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty.
As the sun crept up the sky the day became excessively hot, and under foot a thick, whitish sand grew burning and blinding, so that they travelled only very slowly.
The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.
Inextricably mixed in dreamy confusion, her mind seemed to enter into communion, to be delightfully expanded and combined with the spirit of the whitish boards on deck, with the spirit of the sea, with the spirit of Beethoven Op.
The surface is quite level, and is composed of well-rounded shingle mixed with a whitish earth.
In Marima in Tharaka-Nithi County, Julius Mutembei has lost all his papaya fruits on his one-acre farm to the insects, leaving him counting losses estimated at almost half a million shillings.Speaking to the Nation, Mr Mutembei said he started noticing some small insects covered by whitish substance on his fruits two weeks ago and in less than one week, all the papayas had turned black.
"We noticed my son was bleeding blood and there was a whitish substance on his body.
One jar contained a solidified whitish mass, as well as canvas fabric that might have covered the jar or been used to preserve its contents.
One of the jars contained a solidified whitish mass, as well as canvas fabric that might have covered the jar or been used to preserve its contents.
I recently had an unprotected sexual intercourse only to discover that I have a whitish discharge from my penis.
As a highly acidic lake, Kawah Putih changes colors -- from milky turquoise to whitish green or brown -- based on the air temperature, the degree of sulfuric acidity and the temperature of the solution.
On gross examination, the cut surface of hepatic nodule (Figure 1(a)) showed a poorly demarcated peripheral nodule in lobulated margins, measuring 32 x 21 mm in diameter, which appeared clearly whitish in color.
We recently encountered two patients with rectal xanthomas that were observed as yellowish to whitish lesions during colonoscopy.