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  • adjective of something having a color that is a light shiny green

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Examples

  • She closed her eyes as the smoke wreathing her fingers turned silver-green and drifted down over Max.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • On the hill below were a vineyard and a grove of silver-green olive trees.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • In the late 1950s, when Provence was still an uncharted destination, writer Lawrence Durrell rhapsodized about an enchanted landscape — vines that were "glittering silver-green bundles, or softly powdered by the gold dust of the summers," set against a "taut wind-haunted blue sky," wh ere the "great wines of the south sleep softly on the French earth."

    Coasting High in Provence Lanie Goodman 2011

  • On the hill below were a vineyard and a grove of silver-green olive trees.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • I joined in the traffic speeding out of the City and across the bridge, enjoying the sight of the rich orange cables and spires contrasting against the glimmering silver-green water and the azure sky.

    Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

  • Breathing hard, he leaned against the trunk of a tree causing some of its silver-green leaves to flutter to the ground.

    Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010

  • Grasses are flowering and many are setting seed, red and silver-green.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

  • The Engadine Valley floor was a windswept patchwork of silver-green fields.

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

  • Breathing hard, he leaned against the trunk of a tree causing some of its silver-green leaves to flutter to the ground.

    Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010

  • Breathing hard, he leaned against the trunk of a tree causing some of its silver-green leaves to flutter to the ground.

    Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010

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