'Green' definitions:

Definition of 'green'

From: WordNet
adjective
Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint" [syn: green, greenish, light-green, dark-green]
adjective
Concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
adjective
Not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripe, unripened, immature] [ant: mature, ripe]
adjective
Looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"
adjective
Naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" [syn: fleeceable, green, gullible]
noun
Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass [syn: green, greenness, viridity]
noun
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green]
noun
United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952) [syn: Green, William Green]
noun
An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
noun
A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River [syn: Green, Green River]
noun
An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker" [syn: green, putting green, putting surface]
noun
Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables [syn: greens, green, leafy vegetable]
noun
Street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]
verb
Turn or become green; "The trees are greening"

Definition of 'Green'

From: GCIDE
  • Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r); superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw. gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]
  • 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Having a sickly color; wan. [1913 Webster]
  • To look so green and pale. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. [1913 Webster]
  • As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. [1913 Webster]
  • I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; -- of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties. [PJC]
  • Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier.
  • Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
  • Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named joe-rocker.
  • Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc.
  • Green diallage. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite.
  • Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also dragon root.
  • Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
  • Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
  • Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due.
  • Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
  • Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
  • Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
  • Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
  • Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa.
  • Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
  • Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); -- called also green sloke.
  • Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
  • Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
  • Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
  • Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
  • Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill.
  • Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there.
  • Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum.
  • Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
  • Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck.
  • Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
  • Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes (Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are bright green in color.
  • Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See Turtle.
  • Green vitriol. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate of iron}.
  • Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked.
  • Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Green'

From: GCIDE
  • Green \Green\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greened (great): p. pr. & vb. n. Greening.] To make green. [1913 Webster]
  • Great spring before Greened all the year. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Green'

From: GCIDE
  • Green \Green\, v. i. To become or grow green. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • By greening slope and singing flood. --Whittier. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Green'

From: GCIDE
  • Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
  • 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [1913 Webster]
  • O'er the smooth enameled green. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
  • In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [1913 Webster]
  • Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green.
  • Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
  • Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition.
  • Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
  • Chrome green. See under Chrome.
  • Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below).
  • Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
  • Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green.
  • Mineral green. See under Mineral.
  • Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
  • Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, {imperial green}, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and {mitis green}.
  • Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'green'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Green, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Green, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000) :
22817
Housing Units (2000) :
9180
Land area (2000) :
32.059708 sq. miles (83.034258 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.470824 sq. miles (3.809416 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
33.530532 sq. miles (86.843674 sq. km)
FIPS code :
31860
Located within :
Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location :
40.956719 N, 81.481218 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Green, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Green, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon
Population (2000) :
6174
Housing Units (2000) :
2350
Land area (2000) :
4.545914 sq. miles (11.773864 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.165586 sq. miles (0.428865 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
4.711500 sq. miles (12.202729 sq. km)
FIPS code :
30750
Located within :
Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location :
43.152220 N, 123.383420 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Green, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Green, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000) :
147
Housing Units (2000) :
71
Land area (2000) :
0.195258 sq. miles (0.505717 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.195258 sq. miles (0.505717 sq. km)
FIPS code :
28425
Located within :
Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location :
39.430247 N, 96.999195 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
67447
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Green -- U.S. County in Kentucky

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Green -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000) :
11518
Housing Units (2000) :
5420
Land area (2000) :
288.661213 sq. miles (747.629079 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.115902 sq. miles (0.300184 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
288.777115 sq. miles (747.929263 sq. km)
Located within :
Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location :
37.263757 N, 85.536418 W

Green -- U.S. County in Wisconsin

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Green -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000) :
33647
Housing Units (2000) :
13878
Land area (2000) :
583.986989 sq. miles (1512.519293 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.575520 sq. miles (1.490591 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
584.562509 sq. miles (1514.009884 sq. km)
Located within :
Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location :
42.653242 N, 89.576048 W

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