green
1. green color or pigment;
resembling the color of growing grass (Freq. 6)
• Syn:
greenness, viridity
• Derivationally related forms:
green (for: greenness)
• Hypernyms:
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
• Hyponyms:
greenishness, sea green, sage green, bottle green, chrome green,
emerald, olive green, olive-green, yellow green, yellowish green, chartreuse,
chartreuse, pea green, bluish green, blue green, teal,
jade green, jade
2. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area (Freq. 1)
- they went for a walk in the park
• Syn:
park, commons, common
• Derivationally related forms:
common (for: common)
• Hypernyms:
tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
• Hyponyms:
amusement park, funfair, pleasure ground, village green
• Instance Hyponyms:
Central Park
• Part Holonyms:
urban area, populated area
3. an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
- the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker
• Syn:
putting green, putting surface
• Hypernyms:
site, land site
• Part Holonyms:
golf course, links course
4. any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
• Syn:
greens, leafy vegetable
• Hypernyms:
vegetable, veggie, veg
• Hyponyms:
chop-suey greens, sprout, beet green, chard, Swiss chard,
spinach beet, leaf beet, salad green, salad greens, dandelion green, lamb's-quarter,
lamb's-quarter, wild spinach, turnip greens, sorrel, common sorrel,
French sorrel, spinach
5. street names for ketamine
• Syn:
K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil,
cat valium, super C
• Hypernyms:
ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride, Ketalar
turn or become green
- The trees are greening
• Derivationally related forms:
greening, greenery
• Hypernyms:
discolor, discolour, colour, color
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
1. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum;
similar to the color of fresh grass (Freq. 26)
- a green tree
- green fields
- green paint
• Syn:
greenish, light-green, dark-green
• Similar to:
chromatic
• Derivationally related forms:
greenishness (for: greenish), greenness
2. concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
• Pertains to noun:
Green Party
• Derivationally related forms:
Green
3. not fully developed or mature;
not ripe
- unripe fruit
- fried green tomatoes
- green wood
• Syn:
unripe, unripened, immature
• Ant:
ripe
• Similar to:
unaged
• Derivationally related forms:
immatureness (for: immature), immaturity (for: immature), greenness
4. looking pale and unhealthy
- you're looking green
- green around the gills
• Similar to:
ill, sick
5. naive and easily deceived or tricked
- at that early age she had been gullible and in love
• Syn:
fleeceable, gullible
• Similar to:
naive, naif
• Derivationally related forms:
gullibility (for: gullible)
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