Usually means: Symbolic figure representing nature, fertility.
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  1. green man: Merriam-Webster
  2. green man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. green man: Wiktionary
  4. Green Man (album), Green Man (comics), Green Man (disambiguation), Green Man, Green man, The Green Man (Amis novel), The Green Man (Kingsley Amis novel), The Green Man (TV serial), The Green Man (album), The Green Man (cricket ground), The Green Man (film), The Green Man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Green Man: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  6. Green Man: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. green man: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Green Man)

noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland) A small figure of a walking man illuminated in green on a traffic light at a pedestrian crossing, indicating that it is safe to cross the road.
noun:  (now historical) A character in British folklore often depicted as a foliate head; any of certain similarly-depicted figures from other cultures, hypothesised to share a common folkloric or mythological root.

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