Green

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1. Adjective form

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. Adjective form

Having a sickly color; wan.

3. Adjective form

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

4. Adjective form

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

5. Adjective form

Not roasted; half raw.

6. Adjective form

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

7. Adjective form

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

8. Noun

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

9. Noun

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

10. Noun

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

11. Noun

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

12. Noun

Any substance or pigment of a green color.

13. Verb

To make green.

14. Verb

To become or grow green.
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