alizarin yellow
- noun
- Specialized
:
amarillo de alizarina
- The artist prefers alizarin yellow for its vibrant hue.
Examples
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The textile was dyed a bright shade using alizarin yellow for a vibrant finish.
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Many manufacturers use alizarin yellows in textile production.
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Chemists synthesized a new compound similar in application to alizarin yellow.
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Some artists prefer alizarin yellow for its lightfast properties in watercolor painting.
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The textile was dyed a bright shade using alizarin yellow for a vibrant finish.
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Some artists prefer alizarin yellow for its lightfast properties in watercolor painting.
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Many manufacturers use alizarin yellow in their production processes to achieve various shades.
How Yellow
1
3.8
118
1.0
11
1.0
- Specialized
819
1.0
4
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
alizarin + yellow
The noun phrase is compositional: 'yellow' clearly signals the color and 'alizarin' is a pigment/dye name, so together they denote a yellow dye or pigment associated with alizarin. Thus a B1 learner who knows both constituent words could derive the meaning, though 'alizarin' itself is a technical term that many learners may not know.
Etymology
Alizarin yellow may come from the older dye alizarin, a red color made from the madder plant, because chemists used the same ways of dyeing to make yellow shades. So alizarin yellow now refers to 'yellow dyes used in chemistry and industry'.