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1. | [ adjective ] (color) similar to the color of fresh grass | |
Synonyms: | light-green dark-green greenish | |
Examples: | "a green salad" "green fields" "green paint" |
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Related terms: | chromatic | |
2. | [ noun ] (color) the property of being green; resembling the color of growing grass | |
Synonyms: | viridity greenness | |
Related terms: | chromatic_color sage_green olive_green bottle_green chrome_green emerald sea_green yellow_green bluish_green jade_green greenishness | |
3. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 35 | |
4. | [ adjective ] lacking training or experience | |
Synonyms: | new wet_behind_the_ears raw | |
Examples: | "the new men were eager to fight" "raw recruits" "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" |
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Related terms: | inexperienced | |
5. | [ adjective ] not seasoned | |
Synonyms: | uncured | |
Examples: | "uncured pelts" |
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Related terms: | unseasoned | |
6. | [ noun ] (geography) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | |
Synonyms: | park common commons | |
Examples: | "they went for a walk in the park" |
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Related terms: | tract village_green amusement_park Central_Park urban_area | |
7. | [ adjective ] looking pale and unhealthy | |
Examples: | "you're looking green" "green around the gills" |
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Related terms: | ill | |
8. | [ adjective ] not fully developed or mature; not ripe; | |
Synonyms: | unripened immature unripe | |
Examples: | "unripe fruit" "fried green tomatoes" "green wood" |
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Related terms: | ripe unaged | |
9. | [ adjective ] naive and easily deceived or tricked | |
Synonyms: | gullible fleeceable | |
Examples: | "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" |
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Related terms: | naive | |
10. | [ noun ] (geography) a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River | |
Synonyms: | Green_River | |
Related terms: | river Wyoming Utah | |
11. | [ noun ] (politics) an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party | |
Related terms: | environmentalist green_party | |
12. | [ 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) | |
Synonyms: | william_green | |
Related terms: | labor_leader | |
13. | [ verb ] (color) turn or become green | |
Examples: | "The trees are greening" |
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Related terms: | discolor | |
14. | [ adjective ] concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle | |
Related terms: | green_party | |
15. | [ adjective ] (of a product) not harmful to the environment | |
Related terms: | environment | |
16. | [ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology,surgery) street names for ketamine | |
Synonyms: | honey_oil k jet special_k super_acid super_c cat_valium | |
Related terms: | ketalar | |
17. | [ noun ] (golf,geography) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | |
Synonyms: | putting_green | |
Examples: | "the ball rolled across the green and into the trap" |
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Related terms: | site golf_course | |
18. | [ noun ] (chemistry,food) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | |
Synonyms: | greens leafy_vegetable | |
Related terms: | vegetable beet_green lamb's-quarter chard salad_green dandelion_green sprout wild_spinach turnip_greens sorrel French_sorrel spinach chop-suey_greens | |
Similar spelling: |
greene Greeno Gruen Groen Grein Greenhaw greeneye Greenway gran Greaney grin grayhen Grahn grime groan groin grown grain grume Grana grainy Graney Grunow granny groyne gray_hen gramme Groome grannie Grahan |