GREENISH YELLOW Synonyms

• semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz

• a caustic substance produced by heating limestone

• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

• a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

• any of various related trees bearing limes

• any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber

• the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees

• spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

• cover with lime so as to induce growth

• overgrown with moss

• (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

• small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

• evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits

• hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

• one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

• a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation

• of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

• small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts

• nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel