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1.nounAmbergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
2.nounA hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
3.nounA yellow-orange colour.
4.nounThe intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
5.nounThe stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence."an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor"
6.verbTo perfume or flavour with ambergris."ambered wine, an ambered room"
7.verbTo preserve in amber."an ambered fly"
8.verbTo cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
9.verbTo take on the yellow colour of amber.