[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

green \green\ gr=en, 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
see also:
alkali green helvetia green berlin green berlin brilliant green brunswick green 
chrome green chrome emerald green aldehyde green acid green 
malachite green victoria green solid green paris green gaignet's green 
methyl green light-green mineral green mineral mountain green 
green earth green schweinfurth green imperial green vienna green 
emerald qreen mitis green scheele's green swedish green parrot green 
pickel green nereid green emerald green 

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