"secondary color" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: secondary colors [plural], secondary colour [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} secondary color (plural secondary colors)
  1. (American spelling) Any of three colors derived from mixing two primary colors. Tags: US Translations (any of the three colors): väliväri (Finnish), couleur secondaire [feminine] (French), Sekundärfarbe [feminine] (German), tae mātāwaenga (Maori), color secundario [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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        "(American spelling) Any of three colors derived from mixing two primary colors."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "any of the three colors",
          "word": "väliväri"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "any of the three colors",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "any of the three colors",
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            "feminine"
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        },
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "any of the three colors",
          "word": "tae mātāwaenga"
        },
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "any of the three colors",
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        }
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any of the three colors",
      "word": "väliväri"
    },
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        "feminine"
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    },
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      "code": "mi",
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