A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus.
Having an orange-yellow colour.
To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
To give a saffron colour to (something).
To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
To embellish.
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.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Imaginary, but presented as real.