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adj

1. COLOUR having the colour of grass or leaves: go on - the traffic lights have turned green! | green eyes - see picture on page 411

2. GRASSY covered with green grass: green fields

3. FRUIT\PLANT very young or not yet ready to be eaten: The bananas are still green. | new green shoots on the roses

4. WITHOUT EXPERIENCE informal young and lacking experience: a new batch of very green recruits

5. ILL informal looking pale or unhealthy because you are ill: George looked a bit green the next morning. | green around\about the gills (=looking ill or frightened)

6. ENVIRONMENT connected with the environment: green issues

7. POLITICS belonging to the Green political party

Green with envy wishing very much that you had something that someone else has

the green-eyed monster humorous or literary jealousy

have green fingers BrE have a green thumb AmE to be good at making plants grow

the green stuff AmE informal money

1. something that is green is the same colour as grass. If something is similar to this colour, you can say that it is greenish colour or greeny colour: The first bright green leaves were showing. Green-blue eyes

2. a green area has a lot of grass, plants, or trees: The landscape was gradually getting greener. A campaign to protect the city's green spaces

3. designed to protect the environment ot to limit damage to the environment: greener farming methods; wind farms and other green energy schemes 3a used about people who care about the environment: Green campaigners are aiming to block development of the site. 3b used about the places in which the environment is protected: He pleged tomake Europe greener. 3c green issues are issues that affect the environment 3d Green relating to Green Party

4. not yet ready to be eaten: green tomatoes

5. not experienced, especially because of being young = INEXPERIENCED

6. if someone looks green, their face is pale and they look ill

7. [usually before noun] made from the green leaves of vegetables: a green salad

be green with envy to feel very unhappy because you wish you had something that someone else has

Have green fingers to be good at growing plants. You can also say that someone is green-fingered. The American expression is have a green thumb.

1. Of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass or emeralds. `her flashing green eyes' `the leaves are bright green'

1.1. Consisting of fresh green vegetables. `a green salad'

1.2. Denoting a green light or flag used as a signal to proceed.

1.3. (of a ski run) of the lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by green markers on the run.

1.4. Physics Denoting one of three colours of quark.

2. Covered with grass or other vegetation. `proposals that would smother green fields with development'

2.1. Concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle. `official Green candidates'

2.2. (of a product or service) not harmful to the environment. `traditional, modern, and green funerals'

3. (of a plant or fruit) young or unripe. `green shoots'

3.1. (of wood, food, or leather) in its original or untreated state; not seasoned, tanned, cured, or dried.

3.2. Still strong or vigorous. `clubs devoted to keeping green the memory of Sherlock Holmes'

3.3. archaic (of a wound) fresh; not healed.

4. (of a person) inexperienced or naive. `a green recruit fresh from college'

5. (of a person or their complexion) pale and sickly-looking. ``Are you all right?--You look absolutely green''

1. Of the color green.

2. a. Abounding in or covered with green growth or foliage: the green woods.

b. Made with green or leafy vegetables: a green salad.

c. Characterized by mild or temperate weather: a green climate. 3.

a. Not mature or ripe: green tomatoes.

b. Not grown up; young: still at a green age.
c. Vigorous or robust: keeping one's memory green.
d. Lacking training or experience. See Synonyms at young.

e. Lacking sophistication or worldly experience; naive. f. Easily duped or deceived; gullible.

4. Not yet fully processed, especially:

a. Not dried or aged: green wood.

b. Not cured or tanned: green pelts.

5. a. Beneficial to the environment or less harmful to the environment than others: green technology; recyclable green products.
b. Favoring or supporting environmentalism: green legislators who strengthened pollution controls.

6. a. Having a sickly or unhealthy appearance.

b. Envious or jealous.

7. Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a green circle, indicating the easiest level of difficulty.

1: of the color green

2a : covered by green growth or foliage green fields

b of winter : mild, clement

c : consisting of green plants and usually edible herbage a green salad

3: pleasantly alluring

4: youthful, vigorous

5: not ripened or matured green apples

6: fresh, new

7a : marked by a pale, sickly, or nauseated appearance

b : envious 1 --used especially in the phrase green with envy

8a : not fully processed or treated: such as (1) : not aged green liquor (2) : not dressed or tanned green hides (3) : freshly sawed green lumber

b : not in condition for a particular use

9a : deficient in training, knowledge, or experience green recruits

b : deficient in sophistication and savoir faire : naive was green and credulous

c : not fully qualified for or experienced in a particular function

10a often capitalized : relating to or being an environmentalist political movement

b : concerned with or supporting environmentalism green consumers who practice recycling

c : tending to preserve environmental quality (as by being recyclable, biodegradable, or nonpolluting) greener energy solutions

1. of the colour green

2. greenish in colour or having parts or marks that are greenish a green monkey

3. (sometimes capital) concerned with or relating to conservation of the world's natural resources and improvement of the environment green policies; the green consumer

4. vigorous; not faded a green old age

5. envious or jealous

6. immature, unsophisticated, or gullible

7. characterized by foliage or green plants a green wood; a green salad

8. fresh, raw, or unripe green bananas

9. unhealthily pale in appearance he was green after his boat trip

10. denoting a unit of account that is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations and is used to make payments to agricultural producers within the EU green pound

11. (of pottery) not fired

12. (of meat) not smoked or cured; unprocessed green bacon

13. metallurgy (of a product, such as a sand mould or cermet) compacted but not yet fired; ready for firing

14. (of timber) freshly felled; not dried or seasoned

15. (of concrete) not having matured to design strength

n

1 [C,U] the colour of grass and leaves: a room decorated in pale blues and greens

2 greens [plural] a) informal vegetables with large green leaves: Eat your greens. b) AmE leaves and branches used for decorations, especially at Christmas - compare GREENERY

3 [C] a level area of grass, especially in the middle of a village: playing cricket on the green - see also BOWLING GREEN, VILLAGE GREEN

4 [C] a smooth flat area of grass around each hole on a golf course - see picture on page 1264

5 Green [C] someone who supports the Green political party

1 [C\U] the colour of grass: She was dressed green

2 [C] a large area of grass, for example in a village, where people can walk, sit or play games: They moved to a hous overlooking the green. 2a in golf, the area of short grass around a hole: the 18th green 2b an area of grass where people play bowls - putting green

3 Green a member or supporter of Green Party

4 greens [plural] spoken the green leaves of vegetables, especially when they have cooked - spring greens

1 mass noun Green colour or pigment.

`major roads are marked in green'

1.1 Green clothes or material.

`two girls in red and green'

1.2 Green foliage or vegetation.

`that lovely canopy of green over Stratford Road'

1.3greens Green vegetables.

`eat up your greens'

1.4 A green light.

1.5 The green ball in snooker.

1.6 dated, informal Money.

`that's a lot of green'

1.7dated, informal Low-grade cannabis.

`he got hold of some bad green'

2 A piece of public grassy land, especially in the centre of a village.

`a house overlooking the green'

2.1 An area of smooth, very short grass immediately surrounding a hole on a golf course.

`a 60 ft putt on the last green'

3 A member or supporter of an environmentalist group or party.

`the Greens' remarkable 15 per cent vote'

1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

2. Something green in color.

3. greens Green growth or foliage, especially:

a. The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.

b. The leaves of certain plants eaten as vegetables.
4. A grassy lawn or plot, especially:

a. A grassy area located usually at the center of a city or town and set aside for common use; a common.

b. Sports A putting green.

5. greens A green uniform: "a young ... sergeant in dress greens" (Nelson DeMille).

6. Slang Money.

7. Green A supporter of a social and political movement that espouses global environmental protection, bioregionalism, social responsibility, and nonviolence.

1: a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow

2: something of a green color

3: green vegetation: such as

a greens plural : leafy parts of plants for use as decoration

b greens plural (1) : leafy herbs (as spinach, dandelions, or Swiss chard) that are cooked as a vegetable (2) : green vegetables

4: a grassy plain or plot: such as

a : a common or park in the center of a town or village

b : putting green

5: money; especially : greenbacks

6: often capitalized : environmentalist; especially : a member of an activist political party focusing on environmental and social issues

1. any of a group of colours, such as that of fresh grass, that lie between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum in the wavelength range 575-500 nanometres. Green is the complementary colour of magenta and with red and blue forms a set of primary colours

? Related adjective: verdant

2. a dye or pigment of or producing these colours

3. something of the colour green

4. a small area of grassland, esp in the centre of a village

5. an area of ground used for a purpose

a putting green

6. (plural)

a. the edible leaves and stems of certain plants, eaten as a vegetable

b. freshly cut branches of ornamental trees, shrubs, etc, used as a decoration

7. (sometimes capital) a person, esp a politician, who supports environmentalist issues (see sense 13)

8. slang money

9. slang marijuana of low quality

10. (plural) slang sexual intercourse

v

1 to fill an area with growing plants in order to make it more attractive: the challenge of greening the city

2 to make a person or an organization realize the importance of environmental problems: the greening of public opinion

1 Make or become green in colour.

no object `the roof was greening with lichen'

1.1 with object Make (an urban or desert area) more verdant by planting trees or other vegetation.

`they will continue greening the many treeless and dusty suburbs'

2 with object Make less harmful to the environment.

`tips on how to green your home'

v.intr.

To become green: The rains came, and the grass greened.

v.tr.

1. To make green: Grass greened the hills.

2. To design or organize so as to be beneficial or less harmful to the environment, especially in reducing the amount of pollution created: efforts to green the economy.

intransitive verb

: to become green

transitive verb

1: to make green

2: rejuvenate, revitalize

to make or become green