sallow has definitions from the fields of botany,color
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[ adjective ] unhealthy looking

Synonyms

sickly

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Above the tongue , an aged yellow eye , sallow and time-cast , encrusted within a sphere of marbleized pink skin , stared unfalteringly at him .

Related terms

unhealthy

2
[ verb ] (color) cause to become sallow, as of complexion

Examples

"The illness has sallowed her face"

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discolor

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[ noun ] (botany) any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal

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willow goat_willow Salix

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