saffron > define

Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food.
- synonyms: saffron crocus, Crocus sativus
Dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus.
A shade of yellow tinged with orange.
- synonyms: orange yellow

(a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
(n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
(n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
(v.t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
(n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Saffron is either masculine or feminine given name

, English, : Yellow
English: From the English word which refers either to a spice, the crocus flower from which it is harvested, or the yellow-orange colour of the spice