green

The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.

In a period of increasing industrialization and the palette of grey, brown, and black that came to dominate the modern city, greens provided a refreshing contrast, seemingly bringing the outdoors in.

Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens.

A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?

A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since.

There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.

The surface upon which bowls is played.

One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.

Of a green hue.

He is wearing a green shirt.

The former flag of Libya is fully green.

Sickly, unwell.

Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?

to look so green and pale

Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.

Inexperienced.

John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.

I might be angry[…] with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.

Islamist.

In its most extreme formulation, this vision has devolved into a caricature of Islam as the "Green Peril" (green is the colour of Islam) advancing across the world stage, an image that echoes both the "Red Menace" of Cold War discourse and anti-Asian polemics about the "Yellow Peril".

Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace.

To make or turn (something) green or greener.

Great spring before greened all the year.

Out of that tub had come the day before—Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.

To become or grow green in color.

O rosetree planted in my grief, / And growing, on her tomb, / Her dust is greening in your leaf, / Her blood is in your bloom.

by greening slope and singing flood

To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).

The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.

To become environmentally aware.

To make (something) environmentally friendly.

"The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest."