Definition

1. 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

1. having yellow bands