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green

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1. green - Noun

2. green - Adjective

3. green - Verb

5. green - Adjective Satellite

6. Green - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Having a sickly color; wan.

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.

Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.

Not roasted; half raw.

Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.

Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.

The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.

Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.

pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

Any substance or pigment of a green color.

To make green.

To become or grow green.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate. Le Corbusier

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. Vince Lombardi

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. Norman Douglas

A hedge between keeps friendship green. English Proverb

Hills far away are green but they often have sour bottoms. Irish Proverb

You don't throw rocks at a green mango. Haitian Proverb

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