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brown-green

brown-green

3.7
A green color with a little brown mixed in
  • adjective
  • /braʊn-ɡriːn/
translation icon : marrón-verde
  • The artist chose a brown-green palette to evoke the feeling of the forest in her painting.

Examples

  • The walls of the room were painted in a soothing brown-green, reminiscent of mossy stones.

  • It's almost my skin tone, but has like a sort of mossy brown green undertone to it.

  • First, she tried, then Francesca, and then Pearl, but the brown-green

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The gathering darkness was not the clean dark of evening but a sickly brown-green.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The fruit grows on a woody vine and has a brown-green skin with brightly colored (usually green or yellow) soft flesh that contains many tiny seeds.

    Blog text (17)

  • He wore a jacket in a muted brown-green that blended well with the autumn landscape.

Synonyms

brownish-green
vsbrown-green
1 3.5

Green with a hint of brown

is more balanced between green and brown rather than mainly green

How Brown

brown
939 1.0
brown-green
3.7
olive
62 2.3
green
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

brown-green positive

Morphology

brown-green = brown + green (transparent) = brown + green

The meaning is a straightforward combination of the two colour terms 'brown' and 'green', so learners can infer it from the components.

Etymology

The word brown-green comes from joining the simple color words brown and green, so imagine mixing green paint with a little brown or the look of wet leaves and mud. So brown-green means a green color with a 'touch of brown', a muddy or earth-like green.