green
67
2.1
- adjective
- /ɡrin/
:
verde
- Young children have cortical bone like green wood in a young tree.
- green wood
- green fruit
You mean like not peppercorn, but but like green Peppers through?
- You mean like not peppercorn, but but like green Peppers through?
Examples
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So I got was a sour green apple, I got sour cherry.
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Still see some flowers forming and they're very green, not yet dried.
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Green apples are so great!
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And that morning was the first I seen mama wear her green dress to the plow field.
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I know because I watched her cutting off the green mold, one little rice cake at a time.
Fiction book (1996) -
Consider that coffee beans are green before roasting turns them brown and makes them ready for market.
Academic text (2003) -
Many villagers own kilns, but the green wood often is not baked long enough.
Academic text (2002) -
I froze a Coca-Cola, washed a bowl of green grapes, and turned on the TV.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tonight we have charred venison with buckwheat spaetzle and green peppercorn.
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The chef prefers to use only green tomatoes for his special salsa recipe.
Synonyms
15
3.0
Not fully grown, like a young plant or animal
3
2.7
Not fully grown and not ready to eat or use
Not fully grown and not ready to eat, like green fruit and vegetables
Antonyms
Idioms
- Jargon
To look at the slope and surface of a golf green to decide how to hit a putt
Compounds
- US
52
3.4
An official card that allows a foreign person to live and work permanently in the United States
16
3.7
A political party that wants to protect the environment and support fair social policies
1
4.0
A period in the 1960s and 1970s when new seeds and fertilizers greatly increased food crops
- Specialized
1
5.8
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
1
3.1
A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
1
3.2
A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
- Specialized
1
4.1
Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
- Literature
1
9.6
A soldier in green with no badge sent so a country can deny sending them
1
6.5
A West African monkey that lives in open grasslands with a greenish-grey back and a yellow tail
- Archaic
1
7.5
A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- South African
A monkey that lives on the African savanna with greenish-grey fur and a yellow tail
A small green or yellow-green toad with black bars and stripes found in North America
How Ripe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Green meaning 'not ripe' comes from the colour of young fruit and fresh wood, from old English grēne for 'growing' and 'fresh', so unripe things keep their green colour. That's why a green apple is not fully ripe.