yellows Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
    yellowness; yellow.
  2. verb turn yellow
    yellow.
    • The pages of the book began to yellow

WordNet

Yel"lows noun
Definitions
  1. (Far.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
    His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows. Shak.
  2. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
  3. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913