sea green
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- noun
- /siː ɡriːn/
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verde marino
- They're metallic Moss, Forest Green and sea green, and they're still pretty but just not super bright, which may be good at times for a more that'll look if you're going for that.
- sea green eyes
Examples
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The walls were painted sea green, creating a calming atmosphere in the room.
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The walls were sea green, and there were pictures of food on them.
Fiction book (1998) -
Now, they're traveling north in what we're gonna call a sea green Toyota previa.
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A courtier steps forward; he is young, blond, eyes sea-green like the air, dressed in indigo.
Academic text (2007) -
The sky is sea green, and the puffy pink clouds racing across it move too quickly to really be clouds—not that I thought there were clouds in the first place, since we came to know everything we needed to know about this world as soon as we popped into existence here.
Fiction book (1998) -
She wore a beautiful sea green dress that reminded everyone of the ocean.
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The artist mixed various shades of blue and yellow to create the perfect sea green for her painting.
Synonyms
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A color between blue and yellow like fresh grass
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2.7
A blue-green color often used for clothes or walls
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A green-blue color like the water in a tropical sea
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A light bluish-green color like sea water
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A pale blue-green color like the sea
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A pale green-blue color like the bubbles on the sea
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A color that is a mix of blue and green
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A blue color with a little green in it
A blue-green color like the sea
Green with a small blue tone
A blue-green color like fresh pine leaves
How Green
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a moderate green color that resembles the color of the sea' is directly derived from combining 'sea' (a body of saltwater) with 'green' (a hue), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a green like the sea. Colour-naming compounds are compositional and common cross-linguistically, making this immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Sea green comes from the picture of the sea and the color green and describes the green-blue look you often see in ocean water or shallow waves. So, it means a 'green color' that reminds people of the sea.