Green
Definition of Green
Pronunciation: great | a. | 1. | Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. | | 2. | Having a sickly color; wan. | | 3. | Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. | | 4. | Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. | | 5. | Not roasted; half raw. | | 6. | Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. | | 7. | Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. | | 8. | (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; - of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties. | | n. | 1. | The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. | | 2. | A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. | | 3. | Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; - usually in the plural. | | 4. | Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. | | 5. | Any substance or pigment of a green color.| Berlin green | | (Chem.) See under Berlin. |
| Emerald green | | a - | (Chem.) 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 also aldehyde 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 - | See Paris green (below). |
| Mountain green | | See Green earth, under Green, a. |
| | v. t. | 1. | To make green. | | v. i. | 1. | To become or grow green. |
Related Words
Astroturf, a novice at, a stranger to, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, adolescent, aestival, alive, amateur, amateurish, artificial turf, artless, at half cock, awkward, befoolable, beryl-green, berylline, blankminded, blooming, blue-green, bluish-green, blunt, boodle, bowling green, brass, bread, bucks, budding, cabbage, callow, chartreuse, chips, chloranemia, chloranemic, chloremia, chlorine, chlorophyll, chlorosis, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, common, conservationist, crab, crabbed, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dewy, dinero, distrustful, dough, dry, dumb, dupable, easy, eidetic, emerald, empty, empty-headed, enduring, envious, environmental, environmentalist, ever-new, evergreen, exploitable, fairway, firsthand, fledgling, flush, flushed, foliaged, foolable, fresh as April, gauche, gelt, gilt, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, glaucousness, golf course, golf links, grassland, grassplot, grassy, grease, green as grass, green stuff, green with jealousy, green-blue, green-eyed, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greenishness, greenness, greensick, greensickness, greenyard, groping, grounds, growing, gullible, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hoaxable, holly, hoodwinkable, horn-mad, humbugable, ignorant, ill-digested, impubic, inane, inexpert, infant, ingenuous, innocent, intact, invidious, ivy, ivy-green, jack, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, juicy, juvenile, kale, kept in remembrance, know-nothing, lasting, lawn, leafy, leaved, maiden, maidenly, mazuma, minor, moolah, mopus, neoteric, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, oil of palms, ointment, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, oof, ooftish, original, park, patinate, patinize, persuadable, pickled, pink, plaza, porraceous, preservationist, pristine, pungent, putting green, recalled, recollected, remembered, retained, rhino, ripening, rocks, rosy, rosy-cheeked, ruddy, rural, sappy, sec, seduceable, sempervirent, shekels, simoleons, simple, smaragdine, soft, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, spondulics, springlike, square, strange to, sugar, summerlike, summery, suspicious, sward, tart, tartish, tender, tentative, the needful, tin, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult, unapprized, unbeaten, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underripe, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unforgotten, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unseasoned, unskilled, unskilled in, unsure, unsweet, unsweetened, untested, untouched, untrained, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, verdancy, verdant, verdigris, verdure, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, victimizable, village green, vinegarish, vinegary, virescence, virescent, virgin, virginal, viridity, vivid, wampum, yellow, yellow-eyed, yellowish-green, young, youthful
|
Browse
Greedily
Greediness
Greedy
Greedy-gut
Greegree
Greek
Greek calendar
Greek calends
Greek Church
Greek cross
Greek Empire
Greek fire
Greek paschal cycle
Greek rose
Greek schism
Greek valerian
Greekess
Greekish
greeklike
Greekling
-Green-
Green bice
Green brier
Green cinnabar
Green con
Green crab
Green crop
Green diallage
Green dragon
Green earth
Green ebony
Green fallow
Green fire
Green fly
Green gage
Green gland
Green hand
Green heart
Green iron ore
Green laver
Green lead ore
|