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Definition of Brownish yellow
1. Noun. A yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brownish Yellow
Literary usage of Brownish yellow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1901)
"Brownish-yellow ; head brownish-yellow with a distinct median stripe above ;
rostrum and palpi yellow, the latter brownish toward the tips ; antennae hardly ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Yellow aqueous solution gives a brownish-yellow precipitate with hydrochloric acid
... Solution iu strong sulphuric acid is orange, giving a brownish-yellow ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... bluish green, and very minutely pubescent: areola? depressed, close together,
and with brownish yellow wool and numerous short, yellowish brown bristles ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Greenish olive; beneath brownish yellow; crown and nape slate-gray; forehead white.
Size of a thrush. Senegal. Madagascar Shrike, Lath. H. 46. ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1920)
"Frontal prolongation of the head shiny brownish yellow, darker brown medially;
palpi brown. Antennae moderately elongate, if bent backward extending about ..."
6. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"Paris. It is greatly superior in flavour to the old Jalousie;. Young shoots
upright, long, brownish-yellow. ..."
7. American Druggist (1889)
"On adding peroxide of hydrogen and warming, or allowing it to stand for some
time, the solution turns brownish yellow, and, after being supersaturated with ..."
8. A Systematic Survey of the Organic Colouring Matters by Arthur George Green, Paul Julius (1908)
"In alcohol : red solution with brownish yellow fluorescence.—On addition of
hydrochloric acid to the aqueous solution : brownish yellow ..."
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