| green | 1. Having the colour of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that colour of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. 2. Having a sickly colour; wan. "To look so green and pale." (Shak) 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." (Burke) 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. "We say the meat is green when half roasted." (L. Watts) 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." (Sir W. Scott) 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. <botany> Green brier, a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); called also yaffle. Origin: 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. The colour of growing plants; the colour 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." (Milton) 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." (Pope) 4. 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 colour. <chemistry> Alkali green, 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Green algae | <botany> Division of algae containing photosynthetic pigments similar to those in higher plants and having a green colour. Includes unicellular forms, filaments and leaf like thalluses (e.g. Ulva). Some members form coenobia and the Characean algae have branched filaments. (18 Nov 1997) |
| green bacteria | <microbiology> Anoxygenic phototrophs containing chlorosomes and bacteriochlorophyll c, cs, d or e and light harvesting chlorophyll. (09 Oct 1997) |
| green-broom | <botany> A plant of the genus Genista (G. Tinctoria); dyer's weed. Synonym: greenweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| green cancer | An obsolete term for chloroma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green fluorescent protein | <protein> A protein found in jellyfish which fluoresces, or glows green visible light when excited by UV light with a wavelength of 395 nanometres. It can function as a biological marker when attached to other proteins. The structure of the protein is cylindrical with the glowing component, an amino acid complex called a fluorophore, in the middle of it. (09 Oct 1997) |
| green haemoglobin | <protein> A protein which is formed from the breakdown of haemoglobin (a protein that carries oxygen in the blood) and is a precursor to the bile pigment biliverdin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| green-leek | <zoology> An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi). Synonym: the scarlet-breasted parrot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| green logging | The logging of timber that is still alive. (05 Dec 1998) |
| green monkey virus | <organism, virology> A filovirus that causes Marburg disease, a severe haemorrhagic fever developed in many people who work with African green monkeys. (18 Nov 1997) |
| green pus | Blue pus when, as sometimes happens, it has more of a green hue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green revolution | Advances in genetics, petrochemicals, and machinery that culminated in adramatic increase in crop productivity during the third quarter of the20th century. (09 Oct 1997) |
| green sickness | Yellowing or bleaching of plant tissues due to the loss of chlorophyll or failure of chlorophyll synthesis. Symptomatic of many plant diseases, also of deficiencies of light or certain nutrients. (18 Nov 1997) |
| green soap | A soap made with vegetable oils, potassium hydroxide, oleic acid, glycerin, and purified water; used as a stimulant in chronic skin diseases. Synonym: green soap, soft soap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green soap tincture | A liquid preparation containing potassium soaps and alcohol; frequently advocated in skin cleansing, particularly after exposure to plant toxins such as poison ivy. (05 Mar 2000) |