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- English Word Yellowroot Definition Same as Orangeroot.
- English Word Yellows Definition A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
- English Word Yellows Definition A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.
- English Word Yellows Definition A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
- English Word Yellowseed Definition A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).
- English Word Yellowshanks Definition Alt. of Yellowshins
- English Word Yellowshins Definition See Yellolegs.
- English Word Yellowtail Definition Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon.
- English Word Yellowtail Definition The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
- English Word Yellowtail Definition The menhaden.
- English Word Yellowtail Definition The runner, 12.
- English Word Yellowtail Definition A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).
- English Word Yellowtail Definition The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).
- English Word Yellowthroat Definition Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.
- English Word Yellowtop Definition A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
- English Word Yellowwood Definition The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
- English Word Yellowwort Definition A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
- English Word Yelp Definition To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
- English Word Yelp Definition To boast.
- English Word Yelp Definition A sharp, quick cry; a bark.