Definitions
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- adjective of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
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Examples
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The pots and porcelain cups he amassed often ended up in shards; the glistening pearls he gathered into a pair of coffee-table-size bowls were brownish-yellow.
The Art of Resistance Kelly Crow 2011
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A thin Y shaped glue line appeared brownish-yellow on the plate.
That's How It Went (rev) Martin Dodd 2011
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The seed-grown varieties did disappoint this year, as they do most years, with brownish-yellow foliage.
Nature hit snooze button on foliage, just now starting to pop Joel M. Lerner 2010
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The manure -- in this part of Ohio, most factory farms are either pork, or "layer" (egg) operations -- is sometimes liquefied and sprayed from giant sprinklers that spew brownish-yellow water onto cropland which -- too often -- runs off into streams and ditches that feed into rivers and lakes, including Grand Lake St. Marys.
David Kirby: The Price of Cheap Meat: A Lake Dies in Ohio 2010
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A thin Y shaped glue line appeared brownish-yellow on the plate.
That's How It Went Martin Dodd 2010
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At present, he has a black eye, a brownish-yellow knot on his forehead, and a nasty looking burn on his upper lip that makes him look a bit like a street tough.
Archive 2008-02-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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At present, he has a black eye, a brownish-yellow knot on his forehead, and a nasty looking burn on his upper lip that makes him look a bit like a street tough.
A round of chocolate milk for all my friends, barkeep! Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Yes, as I thought -- there stands Lindström in all his glory before the range, brandishing the weapon with which he turns the cakes; and in a pan lie three brownish-yellow buckwheat cakes quivering with the heat of the fire.
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It stains a smoker's teeth and fingers brown and coats everything it touches with a brownish-yellow film.
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First, many of the trees turned a strange brownish-yellow colour and rotted.
Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming 2008
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