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Mars orange
nounDefinition of Mars orange
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: an orange artist's pigment made by calcining Mars yellow
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or mars orange
: a moderate reddish orange that is yellower and darker than flamingo, yellower and duller than crab apple, and very slightly redder and darker than tile red (see tile red sense 2)
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