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African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread

tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and…

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…

Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…

The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpit…

A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the…

A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts,…

A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump…

A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color…