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Color:
Celery


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Colors with the same hue:
Sap green
Grass Green
Chartreuse
Spring Frost
Kiwi
Tea
Similar colors:
Tea
Rosemary
Light Olive
Beryl
Nyanza
Lichen
Chiffon
Celestial White
Hazy
Celadon
Artichoke
Limestone
Marsh Green
Olivine
Beige
Light Sage
Faded Yellow
Milk
Eton blue
Sage
Pale Yellow
Pallid White
Honeydew
Asparagus
Tarnished Silver
Cream
Ivory
Sallow
Moss green
Faded Green
Words evoked by this color:
suggesting,  celery,  kalamazoo,  lat,  ischemic,  atrophied,  disintegrated,  appalled,  disintegration,  ceasing,  renouncing,  diminish,  relinquish,  comatose,  atrophy,  atrophic,  cowed,  diminishment,  pulverized,  depleting,  strayed,  futile,  depleted,  foggy,  malnutrition,  pigeon,  dugong,  hypoxic,  doldrums,  catbird,  stratus,  placeholder,  deselect,  sweat,  disabled,  subtitle,  graupel,  abeyance,  partially,  attenuation,  martensite,  retired,  retire,  drizzle,  overheard,  ciudad,  fog,  brume,  concourse,  peripheral
Literary analysis:
In literature the term “celery” has occasionally been employed not for its culinary value but rather as a subtle, evocative color—a pale, natural green suggestive of freshness and quiet vitality. For instance, one writer uses it in a striking, almost surreal contrast, declaring that a character was caught “between Celery on one side and Cherubs on the other,” an image that juxtaposes the earthy, understated hue of celery against the soft, angelic quality of cherubs [1]. In a similarly imaginative turn, another passage pairs “Celery and Cherubs” as symbols of nuanced, almost melancholic emotional states—transforming a common vegetable’s tint into a metaphor for delicate temperament and fleeting beauty [2].
  1. Wishing to describe a perplexing situation, this lady said,-- "You see, my dear, she was between Celery on one side and Cherubs on the other!
    — from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  2. Their Celery and Cherubs are tears and temper.
    — from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson


Colors associated with the word:
Celery Green
Pale green
Light Green
Soft Green
Fresh Green
Spring green 
Mint green
Lime green
Chartreuse
Pastel green
Sage Green
Olive green
Moss green
Fern green
Pistachio
Avocado
Words with similar colors:
sweetsop,  calabash,  gooseberry,  inexperienced,  spring,  uncanny,  sick,  flu,  callow,  nausea,  incremental,  nymph,  idyll,  dew,  recuperate,  queasy,  eldritch,  etiolate,  zombie,  ghoul
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