Yellowish

Word YELLOWISH
Character 9
Hyphenation yel low ish
Pronunciations /ˈjeləʊɪʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Yellowish"

What do we mean by yellowish?

Somewhat yellow; tinged with yellow. adjective

Tending to be yellow; somewhat yellow; yellowy: as, the yellowish monitor, Varanus flavescens.

Somewhat yellow. adjective

Somewhat yellow (in colour). adjective

Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk adjective

Somewhat yellow (in colour).

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The word "yellowish" in example sentences

The trout of the Río Yaqui, Río Mayo, and Río San Lorenzo drainages are characterized by yellowish background colors and a pink rainbow band in mature fish. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)

One soft feathery head was in yellowish green, another of more neutral colour; and blending with them were the tints of a few reddish soft-tinted alders below. ❋ Unknown (1856)

"The slaty colour of Wolf's drawing is probably due to an incorrect conception of Hodgson's term grey, which he defines as a yellowish-grey. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

Previously thought to be an "animal-only" pigment, bilirubin is best known as the yellowish hue associated with bruises and jaundice sufferers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Previously thought to be an "animal-only" pigment, bilirubin is best known as the yellowish hue associated with bruises and ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mmmm, actually the resulting sauce is kind of yellowish, you get this color just by mixing the ingredients really, no secret technique. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A kind of yellowish fog seeped in through the chinks in the windows, so much so that Madame Maigret had said: ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1975)

A kind of yellowish-purple funk with spots on it is melting me. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1931)

The banks were of clay and sandstone, from 20 to 30 feet high, the water was discolored to a kind of yellowish white. ❋ Frank Jardine (1880)

Arrived at the Sebastian river, an arm of the sea flowing in among long stretches of salt-marsh clad in a kind of yellowish grass, and inhabited by innumerable wild fowl that make the air ring with their cries, the horse-car stops, you are transferred to an omnibus, brown-skinned Minorcans and French touters for hotels surround you; the horn sounds ta-ra! ta-ra-ta-ra! and you rattle through the streets to the hotel. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Ptolemy though liked to refer to the star using the word ὑπόκιρρος, which described the star as "yellowish" or "reddish", and not as a formal name. ❋ JacobB (2010)

The SNES version of MKI turned the blood a weird "yellowish" color, but it was clearly visible nonetheless, and could even be turned red with a Game Genie code. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- Color Correction accumulates along with Color Correction xenon flash when used the flash on. example: Color Correction + Color Correction xenon flash = distorts the colors; the photos with flash on appear "yellowish" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Examining these with a _Microscope, _ I was able plainly to distinguish, up and down the surface, several small yellow knobs, of a kind of yellowish red gummy substance, out of which I perceiv'd there sprung multitudes of little cases or black bodies like Seed-cods, and those of them that were quite without the hillock of Gumm, disclos'd themselves to grow out of it with a small Straw-colour'd and transparent stem, the which seed and stem appear'd very like those of common Moss (which I elsewhere describe) but that they were abundantly less, many hundreds of them being not able to equalize one single seed Cod of Moss. ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

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