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
She had switched on the lights, and my candle burned yellowly in the white electric glow.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
Sometimes now when she stooped to gather a flower, it was only a leaf with the sun shining on it, or a growth of fungus, yellowly white.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
