Definitions
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- adjective of green tinged with brown
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Examples
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The brown-green swamp water mixes with the blood, turning the water black.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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The brown-green swamp water mixes with the blood, turning the water black.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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In the late nineteenth century, Juliet Corson, the famed founder of The New York Cooking School, said that following such instructions yielded brown-green masses of fiber with no taste or nutritional value.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Also, the field behind the iPad's type has a blue hue that's a bit harsher on the eyes than the brown-green tinge of the Kindle's.
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The goop is a brown-green, and it delivers a putrid-looking earth tone to the yarn, but in a magic moment of oxidization, this color suddenly explodes into electric blue.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Kyoto 2010
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Also, the field behind the iPad's type has a blue hue that's a bit harsher on the eyes than the brown-green tinge of the Kindle's.
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They were the same odd shade of brown-green, or green-brown, at certain angles appearing green and, at others, brown.
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They were the same odd shade of brown-green, or green-brown, at certain angles appearing green and, at others, brown.
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I couldn't see anything, but then, eventually, I spotted a tiny jutting brown-green tip.
Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming 2008
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AU troops in brown-green camouflage, some wounded and barefoot, carrying belongings including a refrigerator and computer, were being ferried out by helicopter to safety, while Sudanese troops stood in combat positions nearby.
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