citreous

comparative more citreous · superlative most citreous

1. Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish.First known use 17th c.

   The glow was there now, a citreous smudge on the hardpacked earth below him and to his left.

   1992, Barbara Hambly, The Magicians of Night

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   And sitting on the porch one night at La Hacienda, reading by generator light, I was hardly even tempted when bats came vectoring down – fruit bats, maybe – called by the lamp's citreous glow in which, turning, I could see my rod fly against the rail, its golden reel glittering like something electrical, or something alive….

   1986, Randy Wayne White, “Costa Rica, the Twig Syndrome, and the World Record That Got Away”, in Out of The Noösphere, page 473