| greengrocer | A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| greenhead | <zoology> The mallard. The striped bass. See Bass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenhouse | A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenhouse effect | The effect of certain gases in the Earth's atmosphere in trapping heat from the sun. (05 Dec 1998) |
| greenhouse gases | Gases that trap the heat of the sun in the Earth's atmosphere, producing the greenhouse effect. The two major greenhouse gases are water vapour and carbon dioxide. Other greenhouse gases include methane, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Greenhow's disease | Excoriations and melanoderma caused by scratching the bites of the body louse, Pediculus corporis. Synonym: Greenhow's disease, vagabond's disease, vagrant's disease. Racial melanoderma, the normally dark skin of blacks and certain other races. Senile melanoderma, cutaneous pigmentation occurring in the aged. Synonym: melasma universale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Greenhow, Edward | <person> British physician, 1814-1888. See: Greenhow's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| greening | A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenlet | L. <ornithology> One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. Gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. Flavifrons) and others. See Vireo. 2. <ornithology> Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits. (06 Mar 1998) |
| greenness | 1. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow. 2. Freshness; vigor; newness. 3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth. Origin: AS. Gr?nnes. See Green Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenockite | <chemical> Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. Origin: Named after Lord Greenock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Greenough microscope | <instrument, microscopy> One of two kinds of stereomicroscopes with two separate compound microscopes, one for each eye, focused on the same object. The other kind has a common main objective. See: binocular microscope. (05 Aug 1998) |
| greensand | <geology> A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green colour, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Greensand is often called marl, because it is a useful fertiliser. The greensand beds of the American Cretaceous belong mostly to the Upper Cretaceous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenshank | <zoology> A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens). Synonym: greater plover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenstick fracture | The bending of a bone with incomplete fracture involving the convex side of the curve only. (05 Mar 2000) |