yellow
noun
a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nanometers.
yellowly
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a word derived from
yellow.
Example Sentences
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The door leads on to the forecourt of a small shopping mall, and next door, looming yellowly beside the river that marks the border with Singapore, is Legoland.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2015
A small bronze Salome, yellowly limp and poised as Indo-Chinese sculpture.
From Time Magazine Archive
To her horror, the place where the needle had entered was swollen, dark-green and festering yellowly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The frost-blighted cottonwoods that bordered the Missouri were behind him, gleaming as yellowly as if, during the short, hot summer, their leafy branches had caught and imprisoned all the sunshine.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
A peep of grey daylight showed in the upper portion of the window-frame, but the incandescent mantle still glared yellowly above his head.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
