citrine

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.

   “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.”

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

   “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.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A brownish-yellow quartz.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a goldish-yellow colour.

   “The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.”

name

1. A surname.