Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Somewhat green.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat green; having a tinge of green: as, a greenish yellow.
- Somewhat raw and inexperienced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat green; having a tinge of green.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Somewhat
green .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was KBR that provided items like lobster and ice cream, not some imagined long support tail of men and women in greenish cammies.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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It was KBR that provided items like lobster and ice cream, not some imagined long support tail of men and women in greenish cammies.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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“I am captain greenish in command of the melnorme starship; ‘Inevitably successful under all circumstances’ … I bid you a formal welcome captain.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Games that deserve sequels. 2005
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But to this scale of experimental blues, other colours must be added: the poppy-red of the Spahis 'tunics, and various other less familiar colours – grey, and a certain greenish khaki – the use of which is due to the fact that the cloth supply has given out and that all available materials are employed.
Fighting France 1915
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The flowers are described as greenish-yellow, so that they are not likely to add much to the beauty of the plant, which is recommended because of the attractiveness of its stem and spines.
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The rosettes are somewhat flattened and numerous, and give the idea of greenish-white flowers.
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There are many references to the down on the lips, which is described as greenish (sometimes bluish) and compared to herbage.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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An achromatic stimulus was still less likely to be classified as greenish following sleep, with no sta¬tistical difference in the magnitude of the resetting in each eye.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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An achromatic stimulus was still less likely to be classified as greenish following sleep, with no sta¬tistical difference in the magnitude of the resetting in each eye.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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They get stuck in my teeth the same way, but they're crunchy and bitter with some kind of greenish guts inside, and the whole time I'm eating them they're buzzing and trying to jump out my mouth.
stinking nightgown 2010
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