-chrome

-chrome

(word root) color

Examples of words with the root -chrome: polychrome

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-chrome

suff.

1. Colored: polychrome.

2. Color; pigment: urochrome.

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[From Greek khrōma, color.]

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-chrome

adj combining form, n combining form

colour, coloured, or pigment: monochrome.

[from Greek khrōma colour]

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chrome

(kroʊm)

n., v. chromed, chrom•ing. n.

1. (not in technical use) chromium (def. 1).

2. chromium-plated or other bright metallic trim, as on an automobile.

3. (in dyeing) the dichromate of potassium or sodium.

v.t.

4. to plate, dye, or treat with a compound of chromium.

[< French (1797): chromium < Greek chrôma color; so called from the brightly colored compounds in which it was found]

-chrome

a combining form meaning “pigment”: lipochrome; phytochrome.

[< Greek chrôma color]

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