The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus. / 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.

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 colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of saffron

plural of saffron

Colored or flavored with or like saffron.

simple past tense and past participle of saffron

A female given name from English; a rare flower name from the saffron.

(India, politics, derogatory) The politics of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) that seek to make the Indian state adopt policies that recall and glorify Hindu cultural history and heritage of India at the expense of other religious traditions.

present participle of saffronize