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Adjective: sallow (sallower,sallowest)  sa-low
  1. Unhealthy looking
    - sickly, peaky [Brit, informal]
Noun: sallow  sa-low
  1. Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
Verb: sallow  sa-low
  1. Cause to become sallow
    "The illness has sallowed her face"

Derived forms: sallowest, sallower, sallowing, sallowed, sallows

See also: unhealthy

Type of: discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], willow, willow tree

Part of: genus Salix, Salix

Encyclopedia: Sallow

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sallet
sallow
sallowish
sallowness
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sally forth
Sally Lunn
sally out
sallying forth
Salmacis
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