'Green earth' definitions:

Definition of 'Green earth'

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  • 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]