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adjective, dark-green·er, greenish·est.

of the colour of growing foliage, between yellowish and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.

covered with herbage or foliage; verdant: green fields.

characterized by the presence of verdure.

fabricated of green vegetables, as lettuce, spinach, endive, or chicory: a greenish salad.

not fully developed or perfected in growth or condition; unripe; not properly aged: This peach is even so green.

unseasoned; non dried or cured: dark-green lumber.

young in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced: a green worker.

unproblematic; unsophisticated; gullible; hands fooled.

fresh, recent, or new: an insult notwithstanding green in his mind.

having a sickly appearance; pale; wan: You're looking a niggling green there—are you going to be sick? She was excited and laughing happily when the plane took off, merely when her skydiving instructor opened the door at ix,000 feet, her confront went positively dark-green with fear.

full of life and vigor; immature: a human ripe in years simply green in heart.

environmentally audio or beneficial: dark-green computers.

(of wine) having a flavor that is raw, harsh, and acid, due especially to a lack of maturity.

freshly slaughtered or still raw: green meat.

not fired, equally bricks or pottery.

(of cement or mortar) freshly set and not completely hardened.

Foundry.

1. (of sand) sufficiently moist to form a compact lining for a mold without farther treatment.
2. (of a casting) as it comes from the mold.
3. (of a pulverisation, in pulverization metallurgy) unsintered.

substantive

a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an consequence of light with a wavelength betwixt 500 and 570 nanometers; found in nature every bit the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.

Art. a secondary color that has been formed by the mixture of blue and yellow pigments.

green coloring thing, as paint or dye.

1. green textile or clothing: to be dressed in green.
2. greens. Too called Ground forces greens . a blue-green compatible of the U.Southward. Army.

greens,

1. fresh leaves or branches of trees, shrubs, etc., used for decoration.
2. the leaves and stems of plants, as spinach, lettuce, or beets, used as nutrient.

grassy land; a plot of grassy basis.

a slice of grassy footing constituting a boondocks or village common.

As well called putting green. Golf. the area of closely cropped grass surrounding each hole.

a shooting range for archery.

Slang.Usually the light-green . money; greenbacks: I'd like to buy a new auto just I don't have the green.

Green, a member of the Dark-green political party (in Frg).

verb (used with or without object)

to go or make green.

Informal. to restore the vitality of: Younger executives are greening corporate managements.

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Idioms about green

read the light-green, to audit a golf game light-green, analyzing its slope and surface, so as to determine the difficulties to be encountered when putting.

Origin of greenish

Offset recorded before 900; Heart English, One-time English language grēne; cognate with German grün; akin to grow

OTHER WORDS FROM green

dark-green·age, substantive green·ly, adverb non·greenish, adjective out·green, verb (used with object)

un·greened, adjective

Words nearby dark-green

Greek valerian, Greek yogurt, Greeley, Greeley, Horace, Greely, green, green about the gills, green alga, green algae, light-green inspect, Greenaway

Other definitions for green (2 of ii)

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Henrietta Howland Robinson "Hetty" , 1835–1916, U.S. financier.

Henry Henry Vincent Yorke , 1905–73, English novelist.

John Richard, 1837–83, English historian.

Julian, 1900–1998, French writer, built-in in U.Southward.

Paul Eliot, 1894–1981, U.S. playwright, novelist, and instructor.

William, 1873–1952, U.S. labor leader: president of the A.F.L. 1924–52.

a river flowing S from W Wyoming to join the Colorado River in SE Utah. 730 miles (i,175 km) long.

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Words related to light-green

fresh, grassy, leafy, lush, raw, tender, verdant, new, blue-green, olive, field, grass, lawn, budding, burgeoning, developing, flourishing, foliate, growing, immature

How to use greenish in a sentence

• The automaker may also do good from surging investor appetite for green bonds—particularly from new issuers—which helped Daimler and Germany price recent debut sales at a discount to traditional offerings.

• If the page is ok, yous will get a light-green light, and if it'south not, yous'll get some suggestions on what to ameliorate.

• This way all the content "additions" are marked green, just feel free to do it the mode that works best for y'all.

• I could see a light-greener, gaunter me on this one cruising to Called-for Man with one of those helmet Mohawks.

• Information technology'south not secret—enterprise startups have somehow become sexier than consumer-facing ones in contempo years—at least when counting the greenish.

• I actually wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the fourth dimension wished we were equally large as Green Day.

• It'due south absurd because Trenchmouth opened for Green Twenty-four hours in the early '90s in Wisconsin.

• I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

• Information technology took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of light-green in a globe of orange, and my jaw nigh dropped.

• At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green effectually a big island.

• With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and and so the stems starts to send out green branches.

• The plant as a whole remains green until belatedly in the autumn.

• A few, very few, piddling dots had run dorsum over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

• I could see only the stretch of light-green earlier me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.

• It was a jump 24-hour interval, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent greenish plumes.

British Dictionary definitions for dark-green (1 of 2)

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noun

any of a group of colours, such as that of fresh grass, that lie between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum in the wavelength range 575–500 nanometres. Dark-green is the complementary colour of magenta and with red and blue forms a set of primary colours Related adjective: verdant

a dye or pigment of or producing these colours

something of the colour green

a small expanse of grassland, esp in the middle of a hamlet

an area of ground used for a purpose a putting dark-green

(plural)

1. the edible leaves and stems of certain plants, eaten as a vegetable
2. freshly cut branches of ornamental copse, shrubs, etc, used as a ornamentation

(sometimes capital) a person, esp a politico, who supports environmentalist issues (see sense 13)

slang money

slang marijuana of depression quality

(plural) slang sexual intercourse

adjective

of the color light-green

greenish in colour or having parts or marks that are dark-green a dark-green monkey

(sometimes capital) concerned with or relating to conservation of the world's natural resources and improvement of the environs green policies; the green consumer

vigorous; non faded a light-green sometime age

envious or jealous

immature, unsophisticated, or gullible

characterized by foliage or light-green plants a green forest; a dark-green salad

fresh, raw, or unripe green bananas

unhealthily pale in appearance he was greenish afterwards his boat trip

denoting a unit of account that is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations and is used to brand payments to agricultural producers within the EU greenish pound

(of pottery) non fired

(of meat) non smoked or cured; unprocessed dark-green salary

metallurgy (of a product, such as a sand mould or cermet) compacted but not all the same fired; prepare for firing

(of timber) freshly felled; non dried or seasoned

(of concrete) not having matured to design force

verb

Derived forms of dark-green

greenish, adjective greenly, adverb greenness, substantive greeny, adjective

Word Origin for green

One-time English language grēne; related to Old High German language gruoni; run across grow

British Lexicon definitions for green (2 of 2)

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noun

Henry, real proper name Henry Vincent Yorke . 1905–73, British novelist: author of Living (1929), Loving (1945), and Back (1946)

John Richard. 1837–83, British historian; author of A Curt History of the English language People (1874)

T (homas) H (sick). 1836–82, British idealist philosopher. His chief piece of work, Prolegomena to Ethics, was unfinished at his death

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with green

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In addition to the idioms start with dark-green

• dark-green about the gills
• green light, the
• dark-green thumb
• green with envy

also meet:

• grass is always greener

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published past Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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