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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ul·tra·ma·rine /-məˈrin/
 (a.)海外的;青色的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ul·tra·ma·rine a.  Situated or being beyond the sea.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ul·tra·ma·rine, n.  Chem. A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
 Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment.
 Ultramarine ash or Ultramarine ashes Paint., a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray than that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. --Fairholt.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ultramarine
      adj : of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
      n 1: blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli [syn: ultramarine
           blue]
      2: vivid blue to purple-blue