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saffronlike

saffronlike adjective: characteristic of or resembling saffron.

Adjective

saffronlike (comparative more saffronlike, superlative most saffronlike)

  1. Characteristic of or resembling saffron.
    • From the saffron-like hue of such of the corpses as were not entirely decayed, we concluded that the whole of her company had perished by the yellow fever, or some other virulent disease of the same fearful kind.1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter X, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 96–97

Forms of saffronlike

comparativemore saffronlike
superlativemost saffronlike

Origin of saffronlike

From saffron + -like.

Questions about saffronlike

What does saffronlike mean?
Saffronlike means characteristic of or resembling saffron.
What part of speech is saffronlike?
Saffronlike is an adjective.

Words near saffronlike in the dictionary

  1. saffronization
  2. saffronize
  3. saffronized
  4. saffronizes
  5. saffronizing
  6. saffronlike
  7. saffrons
  8. saffronwood
  9. saffrony
  10. Saffy
  11. Safi

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