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Meaning of yellow-white | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

A color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.

Examples

“When heated to redness, with free access of air, it absorbs oxygen with rapidity, and changes first into a pulverulent gray protoxide, and by longer ignition, into a yellow-white powder, called putty of tin.”
“"Yes. It is not really golden, you know; it is that yellow-white plant, which grows on an old oak in the wood."”
“My roses have behaved as well on the whole as was to be expected, and the Viscountess Folkestones and Laurette Messimys have been most beautiful, the latter being quite the loveliest things in the garden, each flower an exquisite loose cluster of coral-pink petals paling at the base to a yellow-white.”
“White or yellow-white clumps are usually observed in infectious endophthalmitis (Fig. 4.93)”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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