Straw (colour)



Straw is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus, with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature. The first recorded use of straw as a colour name in English was in 1589.

Straw in nature
The name of the colour straw is used as an adjective in the names of birds and other animals with such colouring to describe their appearance, including:


 * Invertebrates
 * Barred straw
 * Straw underwing


 * Birds
 * Straw-backed tanager
 * Straw-headed bulbul
 * Straw-tailed whydah


 * Mammals
 * Straw-coloured fruit bat
 * Straw-coloured pygmy rice rat
 * Other
 * Blood plasma is also straw coloured