Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Green
(n.) A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
(n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color.
(n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
(n.) pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
(superl.) Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
(superl.) Having a sickly color; wan.
(superl.) Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
(superl.) Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
(superl.) Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
(superl.) Not roasted; half raw.
(superl.) Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
(v. i.) To become or grow green.
(v. t.) To make green.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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