BROWNISH YELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brownish yellow mean? 

• BROWNISH YELLOW (noun)
  The noun BROWNISH YELLOW has 1 sense:

1. a yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge

  Familiarity information: BROWNISH YELLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWNISH YELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

 Context examples 

Skin on the hand, neck and forehead, visible through cutouts in a mask, appeared brownish yellow, not green, to participants.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Under LPS lighting, all stimuli except faces appeared brownish yellow.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)