yellow ['jeləʊ] noun yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons verb turn yellow adj. 1. of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk 2. easily frightened 3. changed to a yellowish color by age 4. typical of tabloids 5. cowardly or treacherous 6. affected by jaundice wh..

magenta [mə'dʒentə] noun 1. a dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta 2. a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I adj. of deep purplish red