Brown

the color produced when certain substances: —wood or paper, for example—are scorched or partially burned. Brown is not one of the primary colors in a spectrum. It is composed of red and yellow, with black, the negation of color. It is also the name of a genus of colors, of which the typical species is ordinary brown, tinged -with grayish or blackish. The other ‘species are chestnut brown, deep brown, bright brown, rusty, cinnamon, red brown, rufous, gland a ceo us, liver colored, sooty, and lurid.