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Definition of "lemon yellow" []

  • A moderate to brilliant vivid yellow. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lemon yellow" in a sentence
  • "Nymphaea Nilumbo, the surface of the water is overspread with its round floating leaves, whilst these are shadowed by a forest of umbragious leaves with gay flowers, waving to and fro on flexible stems, three or four feet high: these fine flowers are double as a rose, and when expanded are seven or eight inches in diameter, of a lively lemon yellow colour."
  • "THEY LIVED and worked “as if …” As if driving to Freedom Square, parking in front of the lemon yellow building flying the Stars-and-Stripes, and entering that other world, which filled most Hungarians with a strange combination of dread and longing, were normal."
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