greenish yellow
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- noun
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amarillo verdoso
- The flowers' heads bend forward; they are greenish-yellow and juicy in a strangely fleshy way.
- pale greenish yellow
- bright greenish yellow
- greenish yellow color
Examples
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Otherwise, seek out the Nijisseiki (aka 20th Century) variety, which is round, greenish-yellow, and dappled with green.
Blog text (9) -
When I think of apple crisp, that's what I think of like this greenish yellow warm color.
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The adults are oval and greenish-yellow.
Academic text (2000) -
Her eyes glinted a pale, greenish-yellow in the sunlight.
Fiction book (1998) -
Small had large greenish-yellow eyes that showed in striking contrast to his caramel complexion.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was inexpensive, conventional, and Italian-made, with a greenish-yellow band on the side.
Fiction book (1995) -
" You've looked better," Marni said, regarding the greenish-yellow bruises on Thrip's jaw.
Fiction book (1995) -
Deciding that there was nothing of interest for a 13-year-old kid in the stand, I almost walked away, then my eyes suddenly fell on a creepy-looking greenish-yellow novel with the words THE TOMB emblazoned on the front cover.
Blog text (18) -
The volunteer fire department crew is sitting on and leaning against their greenish-yellow truck at the bottom of the driveway, next to the double-car garage still standing intact beside the gaping cement block foundation from which the house has been detached.
Fiction book (1997) -
The flowers are attached to a large, pale, greenish yellow bract.
Synonyms
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7.9
A pale yellow-green color like new leaves
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3.6
A bright yellow color like a canary's feathers
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2.7
A green color with a little yellow that looks fresh
A color between yellow and green like young leaves
A light green color that looks partly yellow
A slightly yellow green like fresh peas
A yellowish green color slightly lighter than dark green
How Green
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shade of yellow that is tinged with green' is directly derivable from combining 'greenish' (somewhat green) with 'yellow' (the color). Color compound/adjective combinations are compositionally transparent and follow predictable patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer this sense.
Etymology
Greenish yellow simply names a colour between green and yellow, like young spring leaves or a lemon with a touch of green, and the word greenish shows there is a little green in the yellow. So it means 'a shade of yellow that is tinged with green'.