A World of Color: Yellow

Brush up on this list of words for different shades of yellow.

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  1. amber
    a deep yellow color
  2. apricot
    a yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
  3. banana
    elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
  4. beeswax
    a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees
  5. bistre
    a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
  6. blonde
    a light grayish yellow to near white
  7. bronze
    give a yellow-brown color or appearance to something
  8. brownish yellow
    a yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge
  9. buff
    of the yellowish-beige color
  10. butter
    a solid yellow food made from cream
  11. cadmium yellow
    pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange
  12. cadmium yellow pale
    pale-hued cadmium yellow pigment
  13. canary
    a light to moderate yellow with a greenish tint
  14. canary yellow
    a light to moderate yellow with a greenish tint
  15. chrome yellow
    any of several yellow pigments consisting of normal lead chromate and other lead compounds
  16. citrine
    semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz
  17. cornflower
    plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried
  18. cornsilk
    each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
  19. daffodil
    any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown
  20. dandelion
    any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls
  21. gamboge
    a strong yellow color
  22. gold
    a deep yellow color
  23. goldenrod
    any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago
  24. greenish yellow
    a shade of yellow tinged with green
  25. honey
    a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
  26. lemon
    a strong yellow color
  27. lemon yellow
    a strong yellow color
  28. maize
    a strong yellow color
  29. marigold
    any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers
  30. mosaic gold
    a yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer
  31. old gold
    a dark yellow
  32. orange yellow
    a shade of yellow tinged with orange
  33. pale yellow
    a variable yellow tint
  34. saffron
    a shade of yellow tinged with orange
  35. straw
    of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
  36. sunflower
    any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
  37. sunshine
    the rays of the sun
  38. topaz
    a yellow quartz
  39. turmeric
    a tropical plant of India with yellow flowers and a deep aroma
  40. wheat
    a variable yellow tint
  41. yellow
    yellow color or pigment
  42. yellow ochre
    pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica
  43. yolk
    the yellow spherical part of an egg
Created on Sat Aug 05 21:12:31 EDT 2023 (updated Mon Oct 02 13:01:19 EDT 2023)

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