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▸ noun: Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
▸ noun: A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
▸ noun: A yellow-orange colour.
▸ noun: (British, Australia) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
▸ noun: (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
▸ adjective: Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
▸ verb: (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
▸ noun: A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
▸ noun: A surname of uncertain origin.
▸ noun: A female given name from Hindi.
▸ noun: A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.
▸ noun: A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.
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colored,
gold,
chromatic,
brownish-yellow,
yellow-brown,
floating gold,
amberfish,
sperm,
whale shot,
sperm whale oil,
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