CITRINE Synonyms

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• a female singer

• a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

• any of several small Old World finches

• having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

• having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

• marked by peace and prosperity

• made from or covered with gold

• supremely favored

• suggestive of gold

• presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome

• yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh

• a strong yellow color

• a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

• a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons

• an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

• any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment

• a moderate yellow-orange to orange color

• of a moderate orange-yellow color

• Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food

• dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus

• a shade of yellow tinged with orange

• a yellow quartz

• a mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone

• a light brown the color of topaz

• yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

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

• easily frightened

• changed to a yellowish color by age

• typical of tabloids

• cowardly or treacherous

• affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

• turn yellow