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An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

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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.

Noun
street names for ketamine

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the property of being green; resembling the color of growing grass

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any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

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an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the trap"

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a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"

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a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River

Noun
an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

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United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)

Verb
turn or become green; "The trees are greening"

Adjective S.
similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"

Adjective
not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"

Adjective S.
naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"

Adjective S.
looking pale and unhealthy; "you''re looking green"; "green around the gills"

Adjective
concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

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.
Having a sickly color; wan.

superl.
Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.

superl.
Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.

superl.
Not roasted; half raw.

superl.
Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.

superl.
Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.

n.
The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

n.
A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.

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Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.

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pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

n.
Any substance or pigment of a green color.

v. t.
To make green.

v. i.
To become or grow green.

Green

> Green , a. [Compar. Greener ; superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.] 1. 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. 2. Having a sickly color; wan.
To look so green and pale.
3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
We say the meat is green when half roasted.
6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs.
7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. Shak. Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub (Emilaz rotundifolia) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier. -- Green con (Zo'94l.), the pollock. -- Green crab (Zo'94l.), an edible, shore crab (Carcinus menas) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named joe-rocker. -- Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. -- Green diallage. (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. -- Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Aris'91ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also dragon root. -- Green earth , a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony. -- Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. -- Green fly (Zo'94l.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. -- Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary. -- Green gland (Zo'94l.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn'91. -- Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.] -- Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi'd2i, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa. -- Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite. -- Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); -- called also green sloke. -- Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite. -- Green linnet (Zo'94l.), the greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zo'94l.), the cankerworm. -- Green marble (Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zo'94l.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. -- Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. -- Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. -- Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. -- Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis. -- Green snake (Zo'94l.), one of two harmless American snakes (Cyclophis vernalis, and C. '91stivus). They are bright green in color. -- Green turtle (Zo'94l.), an edible marine turtle. See Turtle. -- Green vitriol. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zo'94l.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.

Green

> Green (gren), n. 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
O'er the smooth enameled green.
3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green.-- Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin. -- Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition. -- Brunswick green an oxychloride of copper. -- Chrome green. See under Chrome. -- Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below). -- Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium. -- Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green. -- Mineral green. See under Mineral. -- Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a. -- Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green. -- Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.

Green

> Green, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greened (great): p. pr. & vb. n. Greening.] To make green.
Great spring before Greened all the year.

Green

> Green, v. i. To become or grow green. Tennyson.
By greening slope and singing flood.

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.

The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

To make green.

To become or grow green.

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Usage Examples

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.