yellow-skinned
English
Adjective
yellow-skinned (not comparable)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: Having yellow skin.
- 2019, Solomon Habtemariam, Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases, page 448:
- Kaempferol was not also detectable in the fruits of yellow-skinned cactus pear[.]"
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Of Far East Asian descent.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 598:
- "Curse you, you yellow-skinned bastard."