ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Yellow-white

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Yellow-white is an adjective meaning A color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.

Meaning

A color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.

More Meanings

  1. The color itself.

Example Sentences

White or yellow-white clumps are usually observed in infectious endophthalmitis (Fig. 4.93)
"Yes. It is not really golden, you know; it is that yellow-white plant, which grows on an old oak in the wood."
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.
My roses have behaved as well on the whole as was to be expected, and the Viscountess Folkestones and Laurette Messimys have been most beautiful, the latter being quite the loveliest things in the garden, each flower an exquisite loose cluster of coral-pink petals paling at the base to a yellow-white.

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