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I have a sentence in a book that goes like 甘い匂いのする **まっきいろ** な花です。It is a kids
book, so everything is in kana. I'm having trouble figuring out the bolded
part. It talks about a dandelion in the context, so I assume that きいろ is
黄色(yellow), what is this (まっ) then?

Google suggests that it might be following 甘い匂いのする **真っ黄色** な花です。and
translates this (真っ) part as "straight". Can someone explain how this
truncation happens?

Also, where to look up the grammar for "のする"?
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Truncated adjective まっすぐ
まっ◯◯ is indeed 真っ, but it does not exactly mean straight. It can mean straight
when you use it as 真っ直ぐ, but that's because of the meaning of すぐ. 真っ
[emphasizes the word that it's connected
to](http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E7%9C%9F%E3%81%A3). If you look at the
meaning of 真 by itself, like "true," then it's a little clearer. So 真っすぐ means
that it's "really" straight. まっきいろ would be "really" yellow, or like a pure
yellow. It connects to some other words similarly, like 真{ま}っ赤{か},
真{ま}っ裸{ぱだか}, 真{ま}っ白{しろ}い, etc.

The issue of の is a separate issue, but you should be able to find it in most
grammar references, as well as in some questions on this site, like
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9922/function-
of-%E3%81%AE-in-these-phrases) and in the other questions linked in it.
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