blackish

Fresh from the interior of a planet, magma usually forms a blackish rock called basalt—not granite, says planetary geoscientist Harry McSween of the University of Tennessee.

John Romero, a division director with the state Transportation Department, described the material that needs to be removed as blackish muck.

These round or oval brownish to blackish lesions are scaly and slightly raised.

“It’s kind of, like, blackish. I’m gonna call it, like, a container. I can’t really tell, though, what the shape is.”

The L.A. smog was so bad that the ground was kind of blackish.