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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

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green +‎ -ish

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