saffronlike

English

Etymology

saffron +‎ -like

Adjective

saffronlike (comparative more saffronlike, superlative most saffronlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of saffron.
    • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
      From the saffronlike hue of such of the corpses as were not entirely decayed, we concluded that the whole of her company had perished by the yellow fever...
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