green
/ɡɹin/ noun A2- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- The surface upon which bowls is played.
- One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
Plural greens
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits.
On the green lawn before it many men and women were dancing.
A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.
Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere.
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