Definitions
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- adjective Of a
color betweenblue andgreen ; darker shades are calledteal , lighter ones arecyan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a bluish shade of green
Etymologies
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Examples
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To make his case, he puts on a slide show: First he shows images of a living cyanobacterium a microbe sometimes called blue-green algae and highlights some characteristics—long filaments made up of cells with small indentations where they meet.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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To make his case, he puts on a slide show: First he shows images of a living cyanobacterium a microbe sometimes called blue-green algae and highlights some characteristics—long filaments made up of cells with small indentations where they meet.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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That's because a dense, rapidly reproducing, foam-like slime known as blue-green algae is spreading like wildfire.
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Based on the appearance of "filaments" and other features that resemble microbes, Hoover argues that the meteorites contain fossilized life in the form of cyanobacteria - single-celled organisms also known as blue-green algae.
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That’s because a dense, rapidly reproducing, foam-like slime known as blue-green algae is spreading like wildfire.
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Quercetin, a potent antioxidant, promotes the action of bone-building cells and is found in green tea, red wine and microalgae such as chlorella, blue-green algae and spirulina.
Dr. Maoshing Ni: Natural Osteoporosis Help Dr. Maoshing Ni 2012
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Quercetin, a potent antioxidant, promotes the action of bone-building cells and is found in green tea, red wine and microalgae such as chlorella, blue-green algae and spirulina.
Dr. Maoshing Ni: Natural Osteoporosis Help Dr. Maoshing Ni 2012
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As one drives, to the left the Caribbean Sea glitters blue-green, and resorts from when Haiti was once a tourist destination - now largely empty save for Haiti's wealthy and the moneyed foreigners in the country - front the ocean.
Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer Michael Deibert 2011
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She stood on a balcony overlooking the sea, with the folds of her blue-green dress rolling like waves, and the white fur on the hem draped at her feet like foam on sand.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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With my misgivings firmly in place, I decided that it was better to risk going down in lurid blue-green flames than to write the book one knows one is able to write.
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