noun Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
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.
amber:
noun 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 The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
noun Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
adjective Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.