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Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.

A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.

A yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.

obtained respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.

A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.

A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab- yaws.…

The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin. [Prov. Eng.]

The European yellow-hammer.

The European yellow-hammer.

The European yellow-hammer. [Prov. Eng.]

The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

The European yellow-hammer. [Prov. Eng.]

ke mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape.

A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.

r one of two species of South African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.

ubstance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance. [Formerly written zeine.]

burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.

of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky- brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon. Zircon syenite, a coarse-grained syenite containing zircon crystals and often also elæolite. It is largely developed in Southern Norway.