yellow

adj. 1 of the colour of buttercups, lemons, egg-yolks, etc. 2 having a yellow skin or complexion. 3 colloq. Cowardly. n. 1 yellow colour or pigment. 2 yellow clothes or material. v. Turn yellow.  yellowish adj. Yellowness n. Yellowy adj. [old english: related to *gold]

superl. Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.