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noun. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between orange and green, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 570 to 590 nanometers; any of a group of colors of a hue resembling that of ripe lemons and varying in lightness and saturation; one of the subtractive primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

noun. A pigment or dye having this hue.

noun. Something that has this hue.

noun. The yolk of an egg.

noun. Gold. Used formerly by prospectors.

noun. Any of various plant diseases characterized by yellow or yellowish discoloration of the leaves and caused by phytoplasmas that are transmitted by insects or by certain viruses.

adjective. Of the color yellow.

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adjective. Having a yellow-brown skin color.

adjective. Of or being a person of Asian origin.

adjective. Cowardly.

transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become yellow.

To render yellow.

To become yellow; grow yellow.

As originally applied to journalism, indecently sensational; in general, sensational; morbid; decadent. See yellow journal.

noun. An acid coal-tar color of the monoazo type prepared by combining diazotized meta-sulphanilic acid with diphenyl amine. It dyes wool orange-yellow in an acid bath.

noun. Same as yellow, 1 .

noun. Same as diphenylamine-orange (which see, under orange).

Of a color resembling that of gold, butter, etc. See II.

See balsam.

A mulatto or a dark quadroon: used (as also yellow girl) both by whites and by negroes.

The yellow star-thistle, Centaurea solstitialis.

Seeflag and Iris.

See yellow-gum.

See Micropterus.

In entomology, Peck's skipper, Polites peckius, a small hesperian butterfly of America, of a brownish color with a large yellow blotch on each hind wing.

noun. The color of gold, butter, the neutral chromates of lead, potassa, etc., and of light of wave-length about 0.581 micron.

noun. The yolk of an egg; the vitellus: opposed to the white, or the surrounding albumen.

noun. plural Jaundice, especially jaundice in cattle (see jaundice); hence, figuratively, jealousy.

noun. plural Dyer's-weed.

noun. Same as peach-yellows.

noun. One of certain geometrid moths: an English collectors' name: as, the speckled yellow.

noun. Any one of the group of small yellow butterflies; a sulphur. See sulphur, n., 3.

intransitive verb. To become yellow or yellower.

transitive verb. To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.

noun. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.

noun. A yellow pigment.

noun. See under Cadmium, Chrome, etc.

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noun. a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt.

noun. a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow.

adjective. Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

adjective. Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible.

adjective. Sensational; -- said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.

adjective. a fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.

adjective. calisaya bark.

adjective. a North American fresh-water bass (Morone interrupta) native of the lower parts of the Mississippi and its tributaries. It is yellow, with several more or less broken black stripes or bars. Called also barfish.

"Although pale yellow is a highly determinate color predicate relative to ˜yellow™, it is far from being maximally determinate."

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