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  • adjective a lime colour

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of a color midway between yellow and green

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Examples

  • B biliary tree - a series of ducts that transport bile from the liver — where it's manufactured — to the small intestine (also called the duodenum), which uses bile to digest food. bile - a yellow-green liquid produced in the liver.

    Glossary of liver transplant terms 2009

  • Eyes peered into the foggy darkness lit intermittently with flashes of yellow-green.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • The haze rolls along the curvature of the yellow-green plane on which he is standing.

    Maze of Sound stephen hastings-king 2011

  • This means we went through wine country in California - while the fruit and nuts trees were all in bloom, the vines were only beginning to wake out of their winter slumber, carefully peaking out their fingertips of little leaves of yellow-green ... acres and acres of vines ...

    bapteme - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • He stands on a yellow-green plane among strange muffin-shaped plants.

    Maze of Sound stephen hastings-king 2011

  • Black and pink are gone while that weird yellow-green remains untouched.

    » Watercolors Strocel.com 2009

  • The color is kind of a brownish yellow-green, and that in itself is a big hint.

    My New Lure Color Theory 2009

  • "We have been picking on this the entire season," he said, observing fruits in three classic stages, yellow-green, orange and full-blooded red.

    Groundwork: The wonder of late-season peppers Adrian Higgins 2010

  • One sticky afternoon last summer, I picked my way through yellow-green grass on the slopes of Humphreys Peak, close to Flagstaff, with Richard Hofstetter, a beetle expert at Northern Arizona University.

    Beetle Mania 2010

  • One sticky afternoon last summer, I picked my way through yellow-green grass on the slopes of Humphreys Peak, close to Flagstaff, with Richard Hofstetter, a beetle expert at Northern Arizona University.

    Beetle Mania 2010

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