green

Topic: COLOURS

Language:	Old English
Origin:	grene

green
1 adjective

green1 S1 W2 See pronunciation table in "How to use dictionary" pages

colour

CC having the colour of grass or leaves:

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beautiful green eyes

Raw coffee beans are green in colour.

dark/light/pale/bright green

a dark green dress

➔ bottle green , lime green

; ➔ olive green

at olive (3), pea green

grassy

DN covered with grass, trees, bushes etc:

green fields

fruit/plant

HBPDF not yet ready to be eaten, or very young:

The bananas are still green.

tiny green shoots of new grass

environment

a) also Green [only before noun] connected with the environment or its protection:

green issues such as the greenhouse effect and global warming

He was an early champion of green politics.

b) harming the environment as little as possible:

We need to develop greener cleaning products.

without experience

informal young and lacking experience [= naive]:

I was pretty green then; I had a lot of things to learn.

ill

informal looking pale and unhealthy because you are ill:

George looked a bit green the next morning.

look green about/around the gills (=look pale and ill)

green with envy

wishing very much that you had something that someone else has

the green-eyed monster

literary jealousy - often used humorously

have green fingers

British English have a green thumb American English to be good at making plants grow

the green stuff

American English informal money

—greenness noun [uncountable]

Definition of green from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic COLOURS