Noun: citrine
| Singular | citrine |
| Plural | citrines |
Sample Sentences
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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]
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[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […] [1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like citrine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus. See: Middle English Nouns '
citrine', Latin Nouns '
citrīnus'.
Verbs referencing "citrine"
Polish Nouns
cytryn.