Describing things
Unusual Colour Names
The colours that get named after fruit, metal, and cloth.
- Teens and up
- Confident · B2
- 12 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- avocado
- a green pear-shaped fruit with a large stone and soft flesh
- coral
- a hard, rock-like structure built by tiny sea creatures
- plum
- a soft round fruit with smooth purple skin and a stone
- brass
- a shiny yellow metal made by mixing copper and zinc
- olive
- a small bitter fruit pressed to make cooking oil
- mint
- a plant with fresh-smelling leaves used to flavour food
- ivory
- the hard creamy-white substance of elephant tusks
- violet
- a bluish-purple colour
- bronze
- a brown metal made by mixing copper and tin
- champagne
- a bubbly white wine drunk on special occasions
- denim
- strong blue cotton cloth used for jeans
- caramel
- a chewy brown sweet made from melted sugar
