citrine

What it means

1. countableuncountableA goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.

   […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]

   1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […]

   2 more examples

   dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.

   c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242

   From above and behind his head, there came a bumblebee as big as his thumb. It circled his ear, then hovered by the rock, probing the nodes of citrine, which were the same bright yellow as the fieldstars that bloomed among the hills.

   2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, page 69

2. countableuncountableA brownish-yellow quartz.

In a sentence

dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.

c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242

Where it comes from

1. Latincitrīnus
2. Middle Frenchcitrine
3. Middle Englishcitrine
4. Englishcitrine

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.