silver-green
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- adjective
- /ˈsɪlvərˌɡriːn/
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verde plateado
- The dark purple hills hem in the silver-green orchard and close off the horizon.
- silver-green leaves
The marsh is a sea of silver green grasses, and the wind ripples the grass with a sibilant sound like bed sheets tearing.
- The marsh is a sea of silver green grasses, and the wind ripples the grass with a sibilant sound like bed sheets tearing.
Examples
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They left their valley, followed a river a little way, until they came to a cottage built of smooth river stones and sticky river mud, thatched with silver-green river rushes.
Fiction book (1994) -
Then her eyes adjusted, and she saw the bulky terra-cotta pot overflowing with a leggy silver-green plant.
Fiction book (1997) -
The marsh is a sea of silver green grasses, and the wind ripples the grass with a sibilant sound like bed sheets tearing.
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They appear in the characteristic silver-green of spring near the wall in the Field of Spring Wheat (Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller).
Academic text (1993) -
Riding with our own Ricky Roe is the grand marshal of the parade. the man who went from the Blackhawk black. white and gold to the silver-green of the Boston Celtics.
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I got back on my feet and looked across the field to a grove of olive trees, their silver-green leaves fluttering in the breeze.
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The marsh is a sea of silver-green grasses, and the wind ripples the grass with a sibilant sound like bed sheets tearing.
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Its silver-green, needle-shaped leaves are highly aromatic, and their flavor is a mix of lemon and pine.
Synonyms
A light green color with a pale shiny look
Antonyms
How Shiny
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Etymology
Silver-green combines silver, meaning 'a shiny, grey metal', and green, meaning 'the color of leaves', so you can picture something green with a silver shine. So, silver-green describes a light, shiny green color with a silvery shine.