ground color AmE
ground colour BrE

The ground color is mostly brown, but can be light gray or also black.

The ground color of some specimens may approach clear orange.

There are two forms, with either a white or light brown ground colour.

It was impossible to say what his ground color was.

Many species are whitish, and a few have dark ground colors.

A large species with a shiny light brown ground colour.

Through selective breeding, an almost solid ground color has been produced.

Their ground color may be green, blue, yellow, orange, or purple.

The ground color may be brown, tan or gray, sometimes with an olive cast.

The ground colour of the wings is dark grey brown.

The ground color of the snake is variable and cryptic.

The ground color is white, dusted with brown scales, especially in the outer third.

Pan camera to show ground color and color of sky.

The ground colour of the female is dark-brown to black.

They first covered the area entirely with white then traced the design in black, leaving out the lights of the ground color.

She was dressed in tan and green, Grounds colors, not ship.

A bright pumpkin ground color with very dark markings is preferred.

The upper side of the males has a pure white ground colour.

The ground color of the fore wings is black.

It was dark brown all over with stripes appearing black on the dark ground color.

It has a pale brown ground color, with the incised spiral lines red.

Dark brown above, basically ground colour with a bronze sheen.

Beyond this the ground color is white with a series of large terminal vermillion-red spots.

Juveniles tend to have a somewhat more reddish ground color.

Male and female have a dark brown ground colour.