Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a light green color, similar to the color of fresh grass.

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  • adjective of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

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Examples

  • Saoutis, at 6-foot-3, with a shaved head and lanky, 175-pound frame, took the witness stand at noon Tuesday wearing a dark suit and light-green tie.

    Montgomery officer not guilty in baton assault on unarmed teenager Dan Morse 2011

  • Standing almost isolated on a wooded road, in a development mostly populated by French- and Mediterranean-style houses, the Breauxs's three-story Tudor-influenced house resembles something out of a Grimm's fairy tale, with a slate roof, gingerbread brown wood columns, a pale yellow stucco exterior, light-green window frames and two stone fountains out front.

    A Contractor Spills His Secrets Nancy Keates 2012

  • Saoutis, at 6-foot-3, with a shaved head and lanky, 175-pound frame, took the witness stand at noon Tuesday wearing a dark suit and light-green tie.

    Montgomery officer not guilty in baton assault on unarmed teenager Dan Morse 2011

  • There is no sign identifying the light-green building as the campaign headquarters for Cantor, although its principal occupants, Ray Allen Jr. and M. Boyd Marcus Jr., are well-known in the political community as advisers to Cantor.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers 2010

  • Drew Kelly for The Wall Street Journal Standing almost isolated on a wooded road, in a golf development, the three-story Tudor-influenced house has a slate roof, gingerbread brown wood columns, a pale yellow stucco exterior, light-green window frames and two stone fountains out front.

    A Contractor Spills His Secrets 2012

  • Carved on the inside walls of a light-green bowl 13th to 14th century, long-necked cranes splay their wings as though braking to land on a barely discernible lotus bud.

    Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul Lee Adair Lawrence 2012

  • Saoutis, at 6-foot-3, with a shaved head and lanky, 175-pound frame, took the witness stand at noon Tuesday wearing a dark suit and light-green tie.

    Montgomery officer not guilty in baton assault on unarmed teenager Dan Morse 2011

  • Army historical archives show that Gen. Douglas MacArthur first demanded 150,000 "jungle kits," including still-experimental uniforms "well camouflaged by mottled patches of light green dye or by solid light-green coloring," according to Alvin P.

    Military camouflage evolved from collaboration of art, science 2011

  • "The tea is my teacher," says Larry Murphy, smiling through a Merlin-like beard in a light-green Chinese tunic and red Converse shoes.

    Ming Holden: Seattle Dispatch: A Tea House, a Gallery, and a Wizard 2010

  • The next day she spoke to a servant named Giles, a small, thin man with light-green eyes.

    WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL GILBERT MORRIS 2010

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