straw-colored

adjective

: light yellow in color : like the color of straw

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Yellow nutsedge has shiny bright lime or yellow-green leaves with clusters of golden-brown or straw-colored flowers. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2026 Fan showed me three vials that each contained a reddish liquid, and a fourth whose contents were straw-colored. — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025 The blood on the infant’s brain was straw-colored, the surgeon had observed, not the pink or red typically associated with acute trauma. — Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024

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“Straw-colored.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straw-colored. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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