Vocabulary : Yellows to Yelp

Yellows : A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. ;; A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus. ;; A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.
Yellowseed : A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).
Yellowshanks : Alt. of Yellowshins
Yellowshins : See Yellolegs.
Yellowtail : Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon. ;; The mademoiselle, or silver perch. ;; The menhaden. ;; The runner, 12. ;; A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus). ;; The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).

Yellowthroat : Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.
Yellowtop : A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
Yellowwood : The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
Yellowwort : A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
Yelp : To boast. ;; To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. ;; A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

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