| 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) |
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| 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) |
| green sputum | A green expectoration seen occasionally in jaundice, due to staining of the sputum by bile pigments. Synonym: green sputum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green stain | <technique> A deposit, produced by chromogenic bacteria, found on the cervicolabial portions of the teeth, usually in children. See: acquired pellicle. (05 Mar 2000) |