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PALE YELLOW

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

Synonyms:

pale yellow; straw; wheat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("pale yellow" is a kind of...):

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

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 Context examples: 

A pale yellow to pink colored, crystalline solid nitrosamine that turns green or orange when exposed to light and emits very toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(N-Methyl-N-nitro-N-Nitrosoguanidine, NCI Thesaurus)

The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)