yellow-banded
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having yellow bands: Describes something that is marked with stripes or bands of yellow color.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The yellow-banded butterfly is easily spotted in the garden.
- Researchers studied the venom of the yellow-banded snake.
- She wore a dress with a yellow-banded hem.
Advanced Usage
- Often used as a compound adjective in zoological, botanical, or descriptive contexts to specify a visual pattern.
- The yellow-banded morphology is a key identifying feature for that species of beetle.
Variants and Related Words
- Band (n/v): A strip or stripe; to mark with stripes.
- Yellow (adj/n): Of the color between green and orange in the spectrum; the color itself.
- Yellow-bellied (adj): Having a yellow belly; (informal) cowardly.
- Yellow-streaked (adj): Having streaks of yellow.
Synonyms
- Yellow-striped: Marked with lines of yellow.
- Yellow-ringed: Encircled with yellow bands.
Notes
- This is a hyphenated compound adjective typically placed before the noun it modifies (e.g., ). It is not commonly used as a standalone phrasal verb or in idioms.
Adjective
- having yellow bands