Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. A pigment yellow cake mix recipes dye having this hue.

Chiefly Southern US The yolk of an egg. Any of various plant diseases characterized by yellow or yellowish discoloration of the leaves and caused by phytoplasmas that are transmitted by insects or by certain viruses. Offensive Of or being a person of Asian origin. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Yellow is the complementary colour of blue and with cyan and magenta forms a set of primary colours.

The racial designation represented by definition 7a is usually perceived as insulting. Mongoloid is the preferred scientific term. However, many anthropologists reject the concept of races based on physical traits and prefer to classify human beings into ethnic groups. Definition 7b is usually perceived as insulting, also because it refers to a physical trait. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.