cress green
- adjective
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verde berro
- The artist blended yellow and blue to create the exact cress green she envisioned for her landscape painting.
Examples
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The designer chose cress green walls to give the room a fresh and vibrant feel.
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She wore a silk scarf in a shade of cress green that complemented her dress perfectly.
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The walls were painted in a lovely cress green.
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I love the cress green of the new curtains.
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The designer chose cress green walls to give the room a fresh and vibrant feel.
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She wore a silk scarf in a shade of cress green that complemented her dress perfectly.
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I love the cress green of the new curtains.
Synonyms
A medium yellow-green color that looks like young leaves
A medium yellowish green darker than pea green and greener than moss green
How Green
Surface Forms
Morphology
cress + green
The phrase denotes the specific green color associated with the plant 'cress', so its meaning is directly built from combining the noun (the plant) with 'green' to name a shade. Although 'cress' may be an infrequent word, a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it refers to a particular kind of green, making the expression compositional and transparent.
Etymology
Cress green comes from the small leafy plant cress, whose leaves are a fresh mix of yellow and green. That's why cress green now means 'a medium yellowish green', a green that is a bit darker than some greens but with a clear yellow tone.