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• Greenishness Adjective
  1. The color the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570-nm.
  2. The color produced by mixing yellow and blue pigments.
  3. Having green as its color.
     • The flag of Libya is completely green.
  4. Sickly, unwell.
     • Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?.
  5. Inexperienced.
     • John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
  6. Environmentally friendly.
     • Let's buy green copier paper for the office.
  7. Overcome with envy.
     • Green with envy.
  8. Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
  9. Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency”.
  10. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  11. Of wine, high or too high in acidity.
  12. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
  13. Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
• Greenishness Noun
  1. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
     • Green colour:.
  2. A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
  3. A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
  4. The surface upon which bowls is played.
  5. One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 3 points.
  6. A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. Marijuana.
  8. Money.
• Greenishness Verb
  1. To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
  2. To add green spaces to (a town).
  3. To become environmentally aware.
  4. To make (something) environmentally friendly.