yellow birch

n : tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or

gray bark [syn: {Betula alleghaniensis}, {Betula leutea}]

yellow wire

(IBM) Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon

connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them, or

to reconnect cut traces after the field engineer mistakenly

cut one. Compare {blue wire}, {purple wire}, {red wire}.

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