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yellow-white

yellow-white adjective: a color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.

Adjective

yellow-white (comparative more yellow-white, superlative most yellow-white)

  1. A color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.
    • When heated to redness, with free access of air, it absorbs oxygen with rapidity, and changes first into a pulverulent gray protoxide, and by longer ignition, into a yellow-white powder, called putty of tin.1839, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, & Mines, page 848
    • "Yes. It is not really golden, you know; it is that yellow-white plant, which grows on an old oak in the wood."1891, Frederic William Farrar, Darkness and Dawn, Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero, An Historic Tale, page 76

Noun

yellow-white (plural yellow-whites)

  1. The color itself.

Forms of yellow-white

Adjective
comparativemore yellow-white
superlativemost yellow-white
Noun
pluralyellow-whites

Questions about yellow-white

What does yellow-white mean?
Yellow-white means a color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.
What part of speech is yellow-white?
Yellow-white can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near yellow-white in the dictionary

  1. yellow-toothed cavy
  2. yellow-vented bulbul
  3. yellow-vented bulbuls
  4. yellow-weed
  5. yellow-weeds
  6. yellow-white
  7. yellow-whites
  8. yellowammer
  9. yellowammers
  10. yellowback
  11. yellowback fusilier

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