Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Yellow.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Yellow: in anthropology and ethnography specifying the yellow or Mongolioid type of mankind.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Yellow-brown; yolk-colored.
  • adjective archaic, ethnology Pertaining to people with yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ξανθός (ksanthos, "yellow").

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