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Word entry · 6 letters

yellow

Best crossword clue

"Banana color"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈjɛləʊ/Part of speech adjective, verb, nounSorted ellowyStarts with YEnds with W7 cluesVery common crossword word
1Y2E3L4L5O6W

Definitions

  1. Color of lemons or ripe bananas; also cowardly in informal use.

Word origin

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).

Used in a sentence

  • It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
  • Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens.
  • He had a yellow laptop in his bag.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues

01Banana color6 letters
02Color of corn kernels6 letters
03Color of ripe bananas6 letters
04Lemon color6 letters
05School bus color6 letters
06Taxi color, often6 letters
07Color of a lemon6 letters

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