'Yellow' definitions:
Definition of 'yellow'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk [syn: yellow, yellowish, xanthous]
adjective
Easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily- livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied]
adjective
Changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment" [syn: yellow, yellowed]
adjective
Typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press" [syn: scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow(a)]
adjective
Cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
adjective
noun
Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: yellow, yellowness]
verb
Turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"
Definition of 'Yellow'
From: GCIDE
- Yellow \Yel"low\, n.
- 1. 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. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A yellow pigment. [1913 Webster]
- Cadmium yellow, Chrome yellow, Indigo yellow, {King's yellow}, etc. See under Cadmium, Chrome, etc.
- Naples yellow, 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.
- Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Yellow'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Yellow'
From: GCIDE
- Yellow \Yel"low\, v. i. To become yellow or yellower. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Yellow'
- Yellowed,
- Yellower,
- Yellowing,
- Yellowness,
- Yellows,
- Cadmium yellow,
- Chrome yellow,
- Cobalt yellow,
- Indian yellow,
- Indigo yellow,
- Iodine yellow,
- King's yellow,
- Maize yellow,
- Mandarin yellow,
- Naphthalene yellow,
- Naphthol yellow,
- Naples yellow,
- Patent yellow,
- Platina yellow,
- Queen's yellow,
- Saffron yellow,
- Turner's yellow,
- Visual yellow,
- Wax yellow,
- Yellow Bluff,
- Yellow Book,
- Yellow Jack,
- Yellow Medicine,
- Yellow Pages,
- Yellow Sally,
- Yellow Springs,
- Yellow atrophy,
- Yellow bark,
- Yellow bass,
- Yellow berry,
- Yellow boy,
- Yellow boys,
- Yellow brier,
- Yellow buckeye,
- Yellow bugle,
- Yellow bunting,
- Yellow cat,
- Yellow copperas,
- Yellow corallin,
- Yellow cress,
- Yellow dock,
- Yellow earth,
- Yellow fever,
- Yellow flag,
- Yellow gentian,
- Yellow jacket,
- Yellow lemur,
- Yellow lousewort,
- Yellow macauco,
- Yellow mackerel,
- Yellow metal,
- Yellow ocher,
- Yellow oxeye,
- Yellow perch,
- Yellow pike,
- Yellow pine,
- Yellow plover,
- Yellow precipitate,
- Yellow pyrites,
- Yellow rail,
- Yellow rattle,
- Yellow rocket,
- Yellow sculpin,
- Yellow snake,
- Yellow sponge,
- Yellow spot,
- Yellow starwort,
- Yellow thistle,
- Yellow tit,
- Yellow viper,
- Yellow warbler,
- Yellow wash,
- Yellow wren,
- alizarin yellow,
- brownish yellow,
- canary yellow,
- greenish yellow,
- lemon yellow,
- madder yellow,
- orange yellow,
- pale yellow,
- tomato yellows,
- yellow ageratum,
- yellow asphodel,
- yellow avens,
- yellow bean,
- yellow bedstraw,
- yellow bells,
- yellow bile,
- yellow birch,
- yellow bristlegrass,
- yellow cedar,
- yellow chamomile,
- yellow cleavers,
- yellow clintonia,
- yellow colicroot,
- yellow corn,
- yellow crake,
- yellow cypress,
- yellow deal,
- yellow delicious,
- yellow dwarf,
- yellow foxglove,
- yellow foxtail,
- yellow goatfish,
- yellow granadilla,
- yellow green,
- yellow gurnard,
- yellow hawkweed,
- yellow henbane,
- yellow honeysuckle,
- yellow hornet,
- yellow iris,
- yellow ironweed,
- yellow jacaranda,
- yellow jackets,
- yellow jasmine,
- yellow jessamine,
- yellow journalism,
- yellow light,
- yellow locust,
- yellow loosestrife,
- yellow lupine,
- yellow man,
- yellow marrow,
- yellow milkwort,
- yellow mombin,
- yellow mongoose,
- yellow nutgrass,
- yellow oak,
- yellow ochre,
- yellow oleander,
- yellow orpiment,
- yellow parilla,
- yellow pea,
- yellow peril,
- yellow phosphorus,
- yellow pimpernel,
- yellow poplar,
- yellow race,
- yellow river,
- yellow root,
- yellow salsify,
- yellow sea,
- yellow spruce,
- yellow squash,
- yellow trefoil,
- yellow trumpet,
- yellow turnip,
- yellow vetchling,
- yellow wagtail,
- yellow watercress,
- yellow woman,
- yellow yellowish,
- Yellow Bluff, AL,
- Yellow Medicine County,
- Yellow Medicine, MN,
- Yellow Springs, OH,
- Yellow bird's nest,
- Yellow copper ore,
- Yellow lead ore,
- Yellow prussiate of potash,
- Yellow-covered,
- Yellow-eyed,
- Yellow-golds,
- brownish-yellow,
- cadmium yellow pale,
- california yellow bells,
- canary-yellow,
- creamy-yellow,
- crimson-yellow,
- deep-yellow,
- downy yellow violet,
- golden-yellow,
- great yellow gentian,
- lead oxide yellow,
- lesser yellow trefoil,
- natural yellow 8,
- onion yellow dwarf,
- potato yellow dwarf,
- shortleaf yellow pine,
- southern yellow pine,
- sulfur-yellow,
- sulphur-yellow,
- summer yellow bird,
- western yellow pine,
- wild yellow lily,
- yellow adder's tongue,
- yellow bachelor's button,
- yellow bone marrow,
- yellow bristle grass,
- yellow cattley guava,
- yellow chestnut oak,
- yellow dwarf of potato,
- yellow giant hyssop,
- yellow globe lily,
- yellow horned poppy,
- yellow lady's slipper,
- yellow mariposa tulip,
- yellow mombin tree,
- yellow mountain saxifrage,
- yellow paper daisy,
- yellow pitcher plant,
- yellow pond lily,
- yellow sand verbena,
- yellow spiny daisy,
- yellow spot fungus,
- yellow sweet clover,
- yellow twining snapdragon,
- yellow water flag,
- yellow water lily,
- yellow-ammer,
- yellow-banded,
- yellow-beige,
- yellow-bellied,
- yellow-blindness,
- yellow-brown,
- yellow-gray,
- yellow-green,
- yellow-grey,
- yellow-hammer,
- yellow-marked,
- yellow-orange,
- yellow-spotted,
- yellow-striped,
- yellow-tinged,
- yellow-tipped,
- yellow-white,
- amber brownish-yellow yellow-brown,
- Yellow Medicine County, MN,
- Yellow-covered literature,
- Yellow-eyed grass,
- Yellow-tailed shad,
- canary canary-yellow,
- large yellow lady's slipper,
- tall yellow-eye,
- yellow lady-slipper,
- yellow star-thistle,
- yellow-bellied sapsucker,
- yellow-bellied terrapin,
- yellow-blue dichromacy,
- yellow-breasted bunting,
- yellow-breasted chat,
- yellow-breasted marten,
- yellow-crowned warbler,
- yellow-dog contract,
- yellow-fever mosquito,
- yellow-green algae,
- yellow-legged plover,
- yellow-poll warbler,
- yellow-rumped warbler,
- yellow-shafted flicker,
- yellow-throated marten,
- blue-eyed yellow warbler,
- onion yellow-dwarf virus,
- potato yellow-dwarf virus,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- yellow-crowned night heron,
- yellow-eyed grass family,
- yellow-leaf sickle pine