caramel vs straw

caramel

adj
  • Of a yellow-brown color. 

noun
  • A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel. 

  • A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky. 

  • A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection. 

straw

adj
  • Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • Made of straw. 

  • Imaginary, but presented as real. 

verb
  • To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. 

noun
  • A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • A dried stalk of a cereal plant. 

  • Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. 

  • Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. 

  • A drinking straw. 

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