Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yellow, as if jaundiced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by
jaundice , or having the appearance of that disease
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Examples
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Dark icteroid fluid sprayed and oozed from the crushed flesh, and the beast flailed about in its death throes.
Conan the Indomitable Perry, Steve 1989
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Both sexes paint themselves with a mixture of the root of the turmeric plant (curcuma longa) and cocoa-nut oil, which frequently changed our clothes and persons of an icteroid hue, from _our_ curiosity to mingle with them in the villages -- _theirs_ to come on board the ship.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various
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