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Color:
Bile


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Colors with the same hue:
Olive
Sycamore
Titanium
Smudge
Peridot
Quiet Olive
Dark khaki
Xanthic
Yellow
Sage
Daffodil
Alabaster
Similar colors:
Sulfur
Peridot
Bitter lemon
Sickly Yellow
Pear
Citrine
Xanthic
Bold Yellow
Vivid yellow
Golden yellow
Middle yellow
Dazzling Yellow
Aureolin
Dandelion
Jonquil
Acid green
Sunny Yellow
Daffodil
Cadmium yellow
Lemon
Limerick
Buttercup
Citrus
Yellow
Maize
Golden poppy
Sunflower
Striking Gold
Sunglow
Honey
Words evoked by this color:
fluorescein,  comb,  baklava,  amber,  blond,  blonde,  combing,  ambrosia,  dhamma,  pilaf,  amritsar,  noonday,  rays,  corona,  surya,  son,  solar,  cob,  noon,  ghee,  dal,  prakash,  durum,  wattle,  cornfield,  fries,  retriever,  twinkie,  raclette,  millet,  butterball,  quesadilla,  sunday,  staphylococcal,  staphylococci,  horn,  dhal,  fenugreek,  topaz,  sunlit,  bask,  basking,  cere,  mead,  muscat,  oak,  honeypot,  brioche,  fructose,  darjeeling
Literary analysis:
Literary authors have occasionally employed "bile" as a reference to a specific color or to evoke vivid hues, moving beyond its strictly medical or physical connotations. For example, Plato’s Timaeus alludes to the idea that different types of bile are distinguished by names relating to their colors, suggesting an intrinsic link between bile’s physical properties and its visual characterization [1]. Similarly, later texts describe bile’s practical role in color production—its mixture with sugar creating purple and red tints—and even portray its dramatic effect on appearance, such as when an overflow of bile transforms eyes to a green hue [2, 3]. These examples illustrate how bile has been used in literature not only as a bodily fluid but also as a metaphorical pigment to evoke specific visual and symbolic impressions.
  1. The various kinds of bile have names answering to their colours.
    — from Timaeus by Plato
  2. A mixture of sugar and bile will produce the purple and red tint, for instance.
    — from Trial of William Palmer
  3. All the bile in her body flew up into her eyes, and turned them green; she looked as if she longed to scratch my face.
    — from The Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins


Colors associated with the word:
Yellow 
Green 
Olive
Chartreuse
Lime  
Mustard
Khaki  
Pea Green
Avocado
Pistachio
Sage
Fern
Citron
Celery
Wasabi
Acid green
Lemon
Spring green 
Words with similar colors:
siskin,  phlegm,  calyx,  ginkgo,  agrimony,  vireo,  gallbladder,  pear,  anise,  poplar,  catkin,  sepal,  petiole,  diuretic,  verge,  wattle,  grasshopper,  vomit,  retch,  warbler
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