Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal.

Cause to become sallow.

Unhealthy looking.

synonym: sickly.

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic^†; etiolate, etiolated; hueless^†, pale, pallid; palefaced^†, tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored etc. v.. light-colored, fair, blond; white etc. 430.    pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.    ... show more

Roget 436: yellow, aureate, golden, flavous^†, citrine, fallow; fulvous^†, fulvid^†; sallow, luteous^†, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic^†, xanthous^†; jaundiced^†, auricomous^†.    gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored; xanthocarpous^†, xanthochroid^†, xanthopous^†.    yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot.    warm, advancing.    ... show more