Definitions

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  • adjective Of a color between blue and green; darker shades are called teal, lighter ones are cyan.

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  • adjective of a bluish shade of green

Etymologies

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blue +‎ green.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • That's because a dense, rapidly reproducing, foam-like slime known as blue-green algae is spreading like wildfire.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • 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.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • That’s because a dense, rapidly reproducing, foam-like slime known as blue-green algae is spreading like wildfire.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Virginia Woolf, my mother and me 2011

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