vegetable black

noun

1

: a fine lampblack made by the combustion of vegetable oils

2

: any of various black pigments resembling lampblacks but made by charring vegetable matter (as vine twigs, willow wood, or wood-pulp waste) and used chiefly in printing inks, cements, and mortars compare carbon black, vine black

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