noun
- Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass.
- A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.
- usage: "they went for a walk in the park"
- 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.
- synonyms: William Green
- An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party.
- A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
- synonyms: Green River
- An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course.
- usage: "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"
- synonyms: putting green, putting surface
- Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables.
- synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable
- Street names for ketamine.
- synonyms: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, cat valium, super C
verb
- Turn or become green.
- usage: "The trees are greening"
adjective
- Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass.
- usage: "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"
- synonyms: greenish, light-green, dark-green
- Concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party.
- Not fully developed or mature; not ripe.
- usage: "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"
- Looking pale and unhealthy.
- usage: "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"
- Naive and easily deceived or tricked.
- usage: "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
- synonyms: fleeceable, gullible
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