YELLOWISH BROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellowish brown mean? 

• YELLOWISH BROWN (noun)
  The noun YELLOWISH BROWN has 1 sense:

1. a medium to dark tan color

  Familiarity information: YELLOWISH BROWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOWISH BROWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medium to dark tan color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

buff; caramel; caramel brown; raw sienna; yellowish brown

Hypernyms ("yellowish brown" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellowish brown"):

snuff-color; snuff-colour (dark yellowish brown)

 Context examples 

It was a yellowish brown and seemed coated with a rough and half-dry mucus.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)