Words starting with Y

• yellow-eyed grass family — Noun – English ～ plants of tropical to temperate regions; usually in wet places
• Yellow River — Noun – English ～ a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta
• yellow lupine — Noun – English ～ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated for forage
• yellow cedar — Noun – English ～ tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament
• yellow pages — Noun – English ～ a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising
• yellow spruce — Noun – English ～ medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood
• yellow warbler — Noun – English ～ yellow-throated American wood warbler
• yellow fever — Noun – English ～ caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
• yellow globe lily — Noun – English ～ globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California
• yellow oleander — Noun – English ～ tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers; all parts highly poisonous
• yellow ochre — Noun – English ～ pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica
• yellow-dog contract — Noun – English ～ a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union
• yellow squash — Noun – English ～ squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck
• yellow-leaf sickle pine — Noun – English ～ a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew
• yellow dwarf of potato — Noun – English ～ the yellow dwarf disease of potato plants
• yellow bugle — Noun – English ～ low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa
• yellow root — Noun – English ～ perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves
• yellow cattley guava — Noun – English ～ small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
• yellow-fever mosquito — Noun – English ～ mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue
• yellow bristle grass — Noun – English ～ common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas

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