Definitions
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
01“Banana color”6 letters
02“Color of corn kernels”6 letters
03“Color of ripe bananas”6 letters
04“Lemon color”6 letters
05“School bus color”6 letters
06“Taxi color, often”6 letters
07“Color of a lemon”6 letters
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