lemon yellow
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2.5
- noun
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amarillo limón
- The first thing I got is this lemon yellow hoodie.
- lemon yellow flowers
- lemon yellow suit
- lemon yellow blazer
Examples
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The returning woman was accompanied by another pregnant woman in a lemon-yellow jumper.
Fiction book (2002) -
We watched while the groom and Gantry himself, a tall, studious-looking man in dark gray slacks and a lemon yellow cashmere sports jacket, struggled to calm the animal down.
Fiction book (1990) -
The room had high ceilings and had been painted a lemon yellow.
Fiction book (1998) -
The northern New Mexico sky was bright with streamers of color, strawberry red and lemon yellow.
Fiction book (1998) -
The refectory was a brightly lit, lemon yellow room on the south side of the building.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Laughing, Teddy followed Archer through the living room into the condo's large, lemon-yellow kitchen."
Fiction book (2000) -
Peter drove me around the grounds in a golf cart topped with a lemon-yellow canopy.
Academic text (2007) -
Time, weather, and traffic fumes had smudged the stucco's lemon yellow.
Fiction book (1999) -
She decorated her room with lemon yellow curtains that brightened the space.
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The artist chose a vibrant lemon yellow for the sun in her painting.
Synonyms
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1.0
The color of a lemon or sunflower
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1.0
A very strong yellow color that is easy to see
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1.0
A bright yellow color like the skin of a ripe citrus fruit
How Yellow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a strong, bright shade of yellow resembling the color of a lemon' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'lemon' (the familiar fruit and its associated color) with 'yellow' (the color term). This kind of compositional color-naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English adjective-noun/compound formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Lemon yellow gets its name from the bright skin of a lemon, the fruit that is a clear yellow. So, lemon yellow means 'a strong, bright shade of yellow'.