Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
green .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a color that is lighter and greener than olive
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Examples
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Through two of the panels, I watched as a member of the Afghan National Police crouched behind a wall of olive-green sandbags about a hundred feet away and aimed his automatic rifle at a curve in the road to the right.
Mike Signer: Stop the Madness: The New Politics of Stunts Mike Signer 2010
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The legislation enforces a standardised olive-green packaging with gruesome images and health warnings.
Rupert Myers: Tobacco 'Blanding': Australian Government Combats Smoking Rupert Myers 2011
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Seif al-Islam, with a full beard and wearing an olive-green T-shirt and camouflage trousers, turned up early Tuesday morning at the Rixos hotel, where about 30 foreign journalists are staying in Tripoli under the close watch of regime minders.
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Even through the massive olive-green fronds the relentless power of the sun was plainly tangible.
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Seif al-Islam, with a full beard and wearing an olive-green T-shirt and camouflage trousers, turned up early Tuesday morning at the Rixos hotel, where about 30 foreign journalists are staying in Tripoli under the close watch of regime minders.
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Tuesday I have an olive-green pair of twill pants made by Carhartt.
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A first-floor office has an octagonal table and an olive-green leather-top desk like that in Jefferson's office, and pink curtains that are a nod to the curtains in Monticello's parlor.
Seeing Monticello in San Francisco Nancy Keates 2011
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She stared as Eric Redding leapt out of the car like the fit Mall runner he was, in his checked brown tweed jacket and his velvet olive-green pants and creamy checked shirt, leather loafers, unable to help the realization that was crowding her well-clad-for-fall body from the top of her combed hair to her properly shod feet: They were both here.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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Now they are simply "them," while in the maternity hospitals no one chooses names from that olive-green lineage for their newborns.
Yoani Sanchez: Goodbye "Comrade," Hello "Mister" Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The smashed three-metre-thick olive-green walls of the former Libyan leader's compound stretch for miles on the western fringes of Tripoli.
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