Citrine (colour) than it is today and could be "reddish or brownish yellow; or orange; or amber (distinguished from yellow)". In today's English citrine as a colour is mostly confined to the contexts of (1) gemstones, including quartz, and (2) some animal and plant names. E.g., the citrine wagtail ("Motacilla citreola"), an Asian bird species with golden-yellow plumage, or the citrine warbler, citrine canary-flycatcher, citrine forktail, etc. Citrine (colour) Citrine is a colour, the most common reference for which is certain coloured varieties of quartz which are a medium deep shade of golden yellow. Citrine has been summarized at various times as
Carmine (color) Carmine (color) Carmine is the general term for some deep red colours that are "very slightly" purplish but are generally "slightly" closer to red than the colour crimson is. Some rubies are coloured the colour shown below as "rich carmine". The deep dark red color shown at right as "carmine" is the colour of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colours are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below. The first recorded use of "carmine" as a color name in English was in 1523. The color wild watermelon is displayed at