It also has a yellow-tipped protuberance growing on the crown between the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
Here “green grow the rushes,” especially the big-headed Kasbá (Arundo donax); the yellow-tipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
He wore a second-hand uniform coat on which his mother had sewn loops of tarnished gold lace, then turned up the yellow-tipped sleeves so they did not fall down over his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Christmas]
The phrase “design inference” seemed to me to be hollow–because my tomato plants are wilted and have yellow-tipped leaves, I infer/deduce from previous experience that a frost hit them. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debate - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"And that mite of a boy is thirteen years old!" and he returned to London triumphant, bringing with him besides the information he went to seek, a root of primroses with yellow-tipped spikes ready to burst, and an early thrush's nest containing five delicate blue eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Wikkey A Scrap] Reference
With color lightening at petal centers, the pale center complements yellow-tipped white beards. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
The yellow-tipped white flowers and green foliage have softened the hard landscape there for at least 30 years. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The brake ferns were yellow-tipped here and there -- a forewarning of autumn -- and in one little nook I found a bed of luscious wild strawberries. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
With them were a very few Caspian terns, still bigger, and with bright-red beaks, and quite a number of Cabot's terns, smaller birds with yellow-tipped black beaks. From Wordnik.com. [X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi] Reference
Here "green grow the rushes," especially the big-headed Kasbá (Arundo donax); the yellow-tipped Namas or flags (Scirpus holoschænus) form a dense thicket; the Ushr, with its cork-like bark which makes the best tinder, is a tree, not a shrub; and there are large natural plantations of the saffron-flowered, tobacco-like Verbascum, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
Porter' sports dark green foliage tipped red and cream in spring and purplish-pink blossoms; E. ventricosa wax or porcelain heath has elegant urn-shaped, blushed pink flowers that taper to a narrow throat and whose lobes curl backward to form a star; E. speciosa makes a great 3-by-3-foot landscape shrub, and its yellow-tipped rosy flowers appear over a long season. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
A bright yellow-tipped tail and waxy red tips on the secondary wings. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
2½ in. across, pale rose-coloured, with a large cluster of yellow-tipped stamens, forming a disk-like centre. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
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