yellows
- 1Plural of yellow. Use this when talking about more than one shade of yellow.
The painter mixed several yellows to match the sunset.
Bright yellows look cheerful on the walls of a kid's room.
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- 2Third-person singular simple present of yellow. Use this form with he, she, or it.
Old paper yellows quickly when it is left in sunlight.
The lawn yellows every August during the dry spell.
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- 3A plant disease, mostly of peach trees, that turns the leaves a pale yellow color.
Like a sickness that drains the color from a plant, the way a bad cold can leave a person looking pale.
The orchard lost half its crop to the yellows that summer.
Peach growers dreaded the yellows, which left the leaves pale and sickly.
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Less common meaning
- 4A sickness in horses, cattle, and sheep that makes their eyes look yellow.
Like the way a person's skin can turn yellow when they are sick, but in farm animals.
The farmer noticed the yellows in two of his oxen and sent for help.
Several sheep came down with the yellows after the long wet winter.
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yellows is a form of yellow
yellow, noun: The bright color of lemons, sunflowers, and school buses. Full entry
- Forms
- yellowyellows plural
- Spelling
- yellow → yellows: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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