SULPHUR-YELLOW Synonyms

• a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar

• 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

• a shade of green tinged with yellow

• aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France

• of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

• semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz

• coins made of gold

• a deep yellow color

• a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

• great wealth

• something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.

• made from or covered with gold

• having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

• 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 tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers

• any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica

• pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds

• leaves eaten as cooked greens

• 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

• of something having the yellow color of sulfur