green : Idioms & Phrases
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- african green monkey
- Alkali green
- amber-green
- american green toad
- beet green
- Berlin green
- blue green
- blue-green
- blue-green algae
- bluish green
- bottle green
- bottle-green
- Bowling green
- Brilliant green
- brown-green
- brownish-green
- Brunswick green
- chop-suey greens
- christmas green
- Chrome green
- Cobalt green
- collard greens
- cress green
- dandelion green
- dark-green
- Emerald green
- eurasian green toad
- Gaignet's green
- golden-green
- grass-green
- gray-green
- grayish-green
- green adder's mouth
- green alder
- green algae
- green apple aphid
- green arrow arum
- green ash
- green bay
- green bean
- green beret
- Green brier
- green bristlegrass
- green broom
- green card
- Green con
- green corn
- Green crab
- Green crop
- Green diallage
- green dinosaur
- green douglas fir
- Green dragon
- Green earth
- Green ebony
- green fingers
- Green fire
- Green fly
- green foxtail
- green fringed orchis
- green frog
- Green gage
- green gentian
- Green gland
- green goddess
- green gold
- green goods
- green gram
- green groceries
- Green hand
- Green heart
- green hellebore
- Green iron ore
- green june beetle
- green lacewing
- Green laver
- Green lead ore
- green light
- green line
- Green linnet
- green lizard
- Green looper
- green mamba
- green manure
- Green marble
- green market
- green mayonnaise
- Green mineral
- Green monkey
- green monkey disease
- green mountain state
- green mountains
- green mushroom pimple
- green olive
- green onion
- green paper
- green party
- green pea
- green pea soup
- green peach aphid
- green peafowl
- green pepper
- green plover
- green revolution
- green river
- green salad
- Green salt of Magnus
- Green sand
- Green sea
- Green sickness
- green smut
- green smut fungus
- Green snake
- green soap
- green soybean
- green spleenwort
- green tea
- green thumb
- Green turtle
- green turtle soup
- Green vitriol
- Green ware
- Green woodpecker
- green-blind
- green-blindness
- green-broom
- green-eyed
- green-eyed monster
- green-leek
- green-stall
- green-tailed towhee
- green-white
- green-winged teal
- grey-green
- greyish-green
- hooker's green
- Imperial green
- Indigo green
- Invisible green
- Iodine green
- Jack-in-the-green
- jade green
- jade-green
- kendal green
- Leaf green
- light-green
- lincoln green
- Malachite green
- Methyl green
- mexican green
- Mineral green
- mitter's green
- moss green
- Mountain green
Mountain pride , ∨Mountain green - mustard greens
- Night green
- Oil green
- Olive green
- olive-green
- oyster-green
- Paris green
- Parrot green
- pea green
- pea-green
- Prussian green
- purple-green
- purplish-green
- putting green
- red-green color blindness
- red-green colour blindness
- red-green dichromacy
- rough green snake
- Sage green
- sage-green
- salad green
- salad greens
- salt-green
- Sap green
- Saxon green
- Scheele's green
- sea green
- sea-green
- silver-green
- silvery-green
- Siskin green
- smooth green snake
- Solid green
- turnip greens
- Verdigris green
- Victoria green
- village green
- william green
- windsor green
- yellow green
- yellow-green
- yellow-green algae
- yellowish green
- Zinc green
african green monkey
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noun common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail
African green monkey; Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus.
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Alkali green
(Chem.) , an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; called alsoHelvetia green .
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amber-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with amber
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american green toad
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noun small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes
Bufo debilis.
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beet green
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noun young leaves of the beetroot
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Berlin green
- a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.
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blue green
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noun a blue-green color or pigment
blue green; teal.
- they painted it a light shade of bluish green
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blue-green
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adjective satellite of a bluish shade of green
blue-green; teal; cyan.
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blue-green algae
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noun predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton
cyanobacteria.
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bluish green
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noun a blue-green color or pigment
blue green; teal.
- they painted it a light shade of bluish green
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adjective satellite of a bluish shade of green
blue-green; teal; cyan.
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bottle green
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noun dark to moderate or greyish green
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Bot"tle green`
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A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. --Bot"tle-green` , a.
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bottle-green
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adjective satellite of a dark to moderate greyish green color
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Bowling green
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noun a town in southern Kentucky
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noun a field of closely mowed turf for playing bowls
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- a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.
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Brilliant green
(Chem.) , a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
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brown-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with brown
brown-green.
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brownish-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with brown
brown-green.
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Brunswick green
- an oxychloride of copper.
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chop-suey greens
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noun grown for its succulent edible leaves used in Asian cooking
tong ho; Chrysanthemum coronarium spatiosum; shun giku.
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noun succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking
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christmas green
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noun any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches
ground pine.
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Chrome green
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noun any of a class of green pigments consisting of chrome yellow and iron blue
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noun a brilliant green color
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(a) The green oxide of chromium,Cr2O3 , used in enamel painting, and glass staining.(b) A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue.
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Cobalt green
- a pigment consisting essentially of the oxides of cobalt and zinc; called also
Rinman's green .
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collard greens
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noun kale that has smooth leaves
collards.
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cress green
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adjective satellite of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green
watercress; cresson.
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dandelion green
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noun the foliage of the dandelion plant
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noun edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine
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dark-green
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adjective satellite of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
dark-green; green; greenish.
- a green tree
- green fields
- green paint
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Emerald green
- a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; also used adjectively;
as, .emerald green crystals - .
(Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; called alsoaldehyde green ,acid green ,malachite green ,Victoria green ,solid green , etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) SeeParis green (below).
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eurasian green toad
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noun Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring
Bufo viridis.
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Gaignet's green
(Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
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golden-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with gold
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grass-green
Grass"-green` adjective
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Green with grass. -
Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
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gray-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with grey
grayish-green; gray-green; grey-green.
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grayish-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with grey
grayish-green; gray-green; grey-green.
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green adder's mouth
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noun North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals
Malaxis ophioglossoides; Malaxis-unifolia.
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green alder
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noun North American shrub with light green leaves and winged nuts
Alnus veridis crispa; Alnus crispa.
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noun shrub of mountainous areas of Europe
Alnus veridis.
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green algae
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noun algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water
chlorophyte.
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green apple aphid
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noun bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves
apple aphid; Aphis pomi.
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green arrow arum
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noun perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
tuckahoe; Peltandra virginica.
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green ash
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noun a variety of red ash having glossy branchlets and lower leaf surfaces
Fraxinus pennsylvanica subintegerrima.
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green bay
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noun a city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan
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green bean
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noun immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable
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noun a common bean plant cultivated for its slender green edible pods
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green beret
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noun a soldier who is a member of the United States Army Special Forces
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Green brier
(Bot.) , a thorny climbing shrub (Emilaz rotundifolia ) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; called alsocat brier .
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green bristlegrass
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noun European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed
Setaria viridis; rough bristlegrass; bottle grass; bottle-grass; green bristlegrass.
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green broom
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noun deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
Scotch broom; common broom; Cytisus scoparius.
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green card
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noun a card that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States
- he was surprised to discover that green cards are no longer green
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Green con
(Zoöl.) , the pollock.
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green corn
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noun a corn plant developed in order to have young ears that are sweet and suitable for eating
Zea saccharata; sweet corn plant; sweet corn; Zea mays rugosa; sugar corn.
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noun corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft
sweet corn.
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Green crab
(Zoöl.) , an edible, shore crab (Carcinus menas ) of Europe and America; in New England locally namedjoe-rocker .
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Green crop
- a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc.
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Green diallage
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(Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.(b) Smaragdite.
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green dinosaur
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noun a living fossil or so-called `green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named
Bartle Frere; genus Bartle-Frere.
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green douglas fir
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noun lofty douglas fir of northwestern North America having short needles and egg-shaped cones
douglas hemlock; douglas pine; Oregon fir; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Oregon pine; douglas spruce.
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Green dragon
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noun European arum resembling the cuckoopint
dragon arum; Dracunculus vulgaris.
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noun early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix
Arisaema dracontium.
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(Bot.) , a North American herbaceous plant (Arisæma Dracontium ), resembling the Indian turnip; called alsodragon root .
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Green earth
(Min.) , a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; called alsomountain green .
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Green ebony
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(a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia ), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing.(b) The West Indian green ebony. SeeEbony .
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green fingers
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noun a special ability to make plants grow
green fingers.
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Green fire
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Pyrotech. ), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due.
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Green fly
(Zoöl.) , any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
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green foxtail
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noun European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed
Setaria viridis; rough bristlegrass; bottle grass; bottle-grass; green bristlegrass.
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green fringed orchis
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noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
Habenaria lacera; ragged-fringed orchid; ragged orchis; ragged orchid.
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green frog
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noun similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada
Rana clamitans; spring frog.
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Green gage
(Bot.) SeeGreengage , in the Vocabulary.
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green gentian
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noun tall herb with panicles of white flowers flushed with green; northwestern United States; sometimes placed in genus Swertia
Swertia speciosa; Frasera speciosa.
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Green gland
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noun one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae
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(Zoöl.) , one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antennæ.
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green goddess
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noun street names for marijuana
sess; skunk; pot; weed; gage; smoke; Mary Jane; sens; grass; dope; locoweed.
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green gold
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noun a gold alloy (at least 14 karat gold with silver or silver and cadmium) that has a green appearance
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green goods
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noun fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
green goods; produce; garden truck.
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green gram
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noun erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
mung; Vigna radiata; golden gram; mung bean; Phaseolus aureus.
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green groceries
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noun fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
green goods; produce; garden truck.
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Green hand
- a novice. Colloq.
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Green heart
(Bot.) , the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is theNectandra Rodioei , that of Martinique is theColubrina ferruginosa .
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green hellebore
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noun deciduous plant with large deep green pedate leaves and nodding saucer-shaped green flowers
Helleborus viridis.
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Green iron ore
- (
Min. ) dufrenite.
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green june beetle
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noun large greenish June beetle of southern United States
figeater.
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green lacewing
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noun pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae
stink fly; chrysopid.
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Green laver
(Bot.) , an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima ); called alsogreen sloke .
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Green lead ore
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noun a mineral consisting of lead chloride and phosphate; a minor source of lead
pyromorphite.
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- (
Min. ), pyromorphite.
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green light
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noun a signal to proceed
go-ahead.
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noun permission to proceed with a project or to take action
- the gave the green light for construction to begin
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green line
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noun the border marking the boundaries of the land that Israel won in its 1948 war of independence
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Green linnet
(Zoöl.) , the greenfinch.
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green lizard
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noun a common Eurasian lizard about a foot long
Lacerta viridis.
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Green looper
(Zoöl.) , the cankerworm.
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green mamba
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noun green phase of the black mamba
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green manure
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noun a growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil
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Green marble
- (
Min. ), serpentine.
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green market
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noun an open-air marketplace for farm products
farmer's market; greenmarket.
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green mayonnaise
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noun mayonnaise with tarragon or dill and chopped watercress and spinach or cucumber
sauce verte.
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Green mineral
- a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See
Greengill .
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Green monkey
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noun common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail
African green monkey; Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus.
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(Zoöl.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus ), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there.
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green monkey disease
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noun a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness
Marburg hemorrhagic fever; Marburg disease.
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green mountain state
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noun a state in New England
Vermont; VT.
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green mountains
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noun a range of the Appalachian Mountains that extends from south to north through Vermont
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green mushroom pimple
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noun a variety of mushroom pimple
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green olive
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noun olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento
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green onion
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noun a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads
spring onion; scallion.
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green paper
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noun a preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion
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green party
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noun an environmentalist political party
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green pea
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noun fresh pea
garden pea.
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green pea soup
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noun made of fresh green peas and stock with shredded lettuce onion and celery
potage St. Germain.
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green peach aphid
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noun yellowish green aphid that is especially destructive to peaches
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green peafowl
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noun peafowl of southeast Asia
Pavo muticus.
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green pepper
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noun a sweet pepper that becomes red when ripe
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green plover
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noun large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
lapwing; peewit; pewit.
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green revolution
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noun the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
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green river
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noun a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
Green.
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green salad
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noun tossed salad composed primarily of salad greens
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Green salt of Magnus
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Old Chem. ), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum.
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Green sand
- (
Founding ) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
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Green sea
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Naut. ), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck.
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Green sickness
(Med.) , chlorosis.
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green smut
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noun disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia
false smut.
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green smut fungus
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noun fungus causing green smut in rice
Ustilaginoidea virens.
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Green snake
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noun any of numerous African colubrid snakes
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noun either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color
grass snake.
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(Zoöl.) , one of two harmless American snakes (Cyclophis vernalis , andC. æstivus ). They are bright green in color.
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green soap
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noun a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
soft soap.
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green soybean
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noun seeds shelled and cooked as lima beans
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green spleenwort
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noun a small fern with slim green fronds; widely distributed in cool parts of northern hemisphere
Asplenium viride.
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green tea
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noun tea leaves that have been steamed and dried without fermenting
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green thumb
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noun a special ability to make plants grow
green fingers.
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Green turtle
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noun large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup
Chelonia mydas.
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(Zoöl.) , an edible marine turtle. SeeTurtle .(Zoöl.) , a marine turtle of the genusChelonia , having usually a smooth greenish or olive-colored shell. It is highly valued for the delicacy of its flesh, which is used especially for turtle soup. Two distinct species or varieties are known; one of which (Chelonia Midas ) inhabits the warm part of the Atlantic Ocean, and sometimes weighs eight hundred pounds or more; the other (C. virgata ) inhabits the Pacific Ocean. Both species are similar in habits and feed principally on seaweed and other marine plants, especially the turtle grass.
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green turtle soup
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noun soup usually made of the flesh of green turtles
turtle soup.
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Green vitriol
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(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc.(b) (Min. ) Same ascopperas ,melanterite andsulphate of iron .
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Green ware
- articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked.
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Green woodpecker
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noun woodpecker of Europe and western Asia
Picus viridis.
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(Zoöl.) , a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis ); called alsoyaffle .
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green-blind
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adjective satellite inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red
deuteranopic.
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green-blindness
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noun dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
Daltonism; deuteranopia.
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green-broom
Green"-broom` noun
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(Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria ); dyer's weed; -- called alsogreenweed.
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green-eyed
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adjective satellite suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
jealous; overjealous.
- a jealous lover
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Green"-eyed adjective
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Having green eyes. -
Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts. "Green-eyed jealousy." Shak.
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green-eyed monster
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noun a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
jealousy.
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green-leek
Green"-leek` noun
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(Zoöl.) An Australian parrakeet ( Polytelis Barrabandi ); -- called also thescarlet-breasted parrot .
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green-stall
Green"-stall` noun
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A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
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green-tailed towhee
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noun towhee of the Rocky Mountains
Chlorura chlorura.
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green-white
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adjective satellite of white flowers tinged with green
greenish-white.
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green-winged teal
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noun common teal of Eurasia and North America
Anas crecca; greenwing.
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grey-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with grey
grayish-green; gray-green; grey-green.
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greyish-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with grey
grayish-green; gray-green; grey-green.
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hooker's green
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noun green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge
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Imperial green
- . See
Paris green , underGreen .
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Indigo green
- a green obtained from indigo.
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Invisible green
- a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.
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Iodine green
- an artificial green dyestuff, consisting of an iodine derivative of rosaniline; called also
night green .
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Jack-in-the-green
- a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
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jade green
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noun a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
jade.
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jade-green
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adjective satellite of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green
jade.
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kendal green
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noun a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant
Kendal.
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Ken"dal green`, Ken"dal
(Also<
- Kendal green
- Kendal
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A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green ? Shak.
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Leaf green
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(Bot.) SeeChlorophyll .
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light-green
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adjective satellite of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
dark-green; green; greenish.
- a green tree
- green fields
- green paint
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lincoln green
Lin"coln green"
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. A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.
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Malachite green
- . See
Emerald green , underGreen , n.
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Methyl green
(Chem.) , an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; called also light-green.
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mexican green
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noun a particularly potent variety of marijuana
Acapulco gold.
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Mineral green
- a green carbonate of copper; malachite.
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mitter's green
Mit"ter's green`
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(Chem.) A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.
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moss green
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adjective satellite of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color
mosstone.
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Mountain green
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(Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper .(b) SeeGreen earth , underGreen , a. - . See
Green earth , underGreen , a.
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Mountain pride , ∨ Mountain green
(Bot.) , a tree of Jamaica (Spathelia simplex ), which has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves.
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mustard greens
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noun leaves eaten as cooked greens
leaf mustard; Indian mustard; mustard.
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Night green
- iodine green.
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Oil green
- a pale yellowish green, like oil.
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Olive green
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noun a color that is lighter and greener than olive
olive green.
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- a dark brownish green, like the color of the olive.
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olive-green
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noun a color that is lighter and greener than olive
olive green.
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oyster-green
Oys"ter-green` noun
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(Bot.) A green membranous seaweed ( Ulva ) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.
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Paris green
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noun a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate
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noun a shade of green tinged with yellow
yellow green; pea green; chartreuse; Paris green.
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(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 alsoSchweinfurth green ,imperial green ,Vienna green ,emerald qreen , andmitis green .
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Parrot green
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(Chem.) SeeScheele's green , underGreen , n.
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pea green
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noun a shade of green tinged with yellow
yellow green; pea green; chartreuse; Paris green.
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pea-green
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adjective satellite of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color
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Prussian green
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(Chem.) Same asBerlin green , underBerlin .
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purple-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with purple
purple-green.
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purplish-green
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adjective satellite of green tinged with purple
purple-green.
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putting green
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noun an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
putting surface; green.
- the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker
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red-green color blindness
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noun confusion of red and green
red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness.
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red-green colour blindness
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noun confusion of red and green
red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness.
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red-green dichromacy
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noun confusion of red and green
red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness.
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rough green snake
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noun of southern and eastern United States
Opheodrys aestivus.
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Sage green
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noun the color of sage leaves
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- of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage.
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sage-green
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adjective satellite of the grey-green color of sage leaves
sage.
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salad green
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noun greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads
salad green.
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salad greens
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noun greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads
salad green.
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salt-green
Salt"-green adjective
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Sea-green in color. Shak.
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Sap green
- a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the
Rhamnus catharticus , or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
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Saxon green
(Dyeing) , a green color produced by dyeing with yellow upon a ground of Saxon blue.
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Scheele's green
(Chem.) , a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; called alsoSwedish green . It may enter into various pigments calledparrot green ,pickel green ,Brunswick green ,nereid green , oremerald green .
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sea green
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noun the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea
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Sea" green`
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The green color of sea water.
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sea-green
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adjective satellite of the color of the sea; bluish green
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Sea"-green` adjective
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Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.
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silver-green
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adjective satellite of something having a color that is a light shiny green
silver-green.
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silvery-green
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adjective satellite of something having a color that is a light shiny green
silver-green.
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Siskin green
- a delicate shade of yellowish green, as in the mineral torbernite.
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smooth green snake
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noun of western and central United States
Opheodrys vernalis.
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Solid green
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Emerald green (a) , underGreen .
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turnip greens
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noun tender leaves of young white turnips
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Verdigris green
- clear bluish green, the color of verdigris.
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Victoria green
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(Chem.) SeeEmerald green , underGreen .
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village green
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noun a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land
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william green
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noun United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
Green.
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windsor green
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noun a light chrome green pigment
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yellow green
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noun a shade of green tinged with yellow
yellow green; pea green; chartreuse; Paris green.
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yellow-green
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adjective satellite of a color midway between yellow and green
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yellow-green algae
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noun any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment
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yellowish green
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noun a shade of green tinged with yellow
yellow green; pea green; chartreuse; Paris green.
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Zinc green
- a green pigment consisting of zinc and cobalt oxides; called also
Rinmann's green .