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YELLOWISH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
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chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Context examples:
It was a yellowish brown and seemed coated with a rough and half-dry mucus.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A yellowish, crystalline, inorganic compound with a sharp odor that emits toxic fumes of beryllium oxides, hydrochloric acid and other chlorinated compounds upon heating.
(Beryllium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)
A grayish-red, yellowish or white colored, very toxic, crystalline aromatic amine that darkens when exposed to air and light.
(Benzidine, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is catalase and oxidase positive, produces a yellowish pigment, non-hemolytic, utilizes glucose and maltose, but not mannose or lactose, reduces nitrite but not nitrate, and some strains spontaneously agglutinate in saline.
(Neisseria subflava, NCI Thesaurus)
What’s more, the perceived greenish hue of faces under LPS light deviates from what might be expected based on the spectrum of the LPS light itself, which gives a yellowish appearance.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
Grossly it is usually unilateral, firm and white or yellowish.
(Ovarian Brenner Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
A yellowish to pinkish colored, synthetic leaflet material. p-Chloro-o-toluidine is used in industry in the manufacture of azo dyes and is used in the production of the pesticide chlordimeform.
(p-Chloro-o-toluidine, NCI Thesaurus)
A yellowish, crystalline, inorganic compound that emits toxic chromium fumes upon heating.
(Calcium Chromate, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, produces a yellowish pigment, reduces both nitrate and nitrite, synthesizes polysaccharides, and produces acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, and sucrose, but not mannose or lactose.
(Neisseria mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)
All the bottom area round the water-edge was alive with their young ones, and with hideous mothers brooding upon their leathery, yellowish eggs.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
