Paris green Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate
  2. noun a shade of green tinged with yellow
    yellow green; pea green; chartreuse; yellowish green.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green.
Definitions
  1. . See under Green, n.

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