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greening Definition


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green
adj greener, greenest
    1. Like the colour of the leaves of most plants, between yellow and blue in the spectrum.
    2. Covered with grass, bushes, etc.
      Example: green areas of the city
      Thesaurus: growing, verdant, lush, leafy, sprouting, luxuriant, blooming, thriving, budding, foliate, flourishing; Antonym: withered, sere, yellow.
    3. Consisting mainly of leaves.
      Example: green salad
    4. Said of fruit: not yet ripe.
    5. colloq
      Said of a person: young, inexperienced or easily fooled.
      Thesaurus: immature, young, growing, unripe, unseasoned, half-baked, callow, naive, unskilled; Antonym: mature, ripe.
    6. Showing concern for, or designed to be harmless to, the environment.
    7. Said of someone's face: pale; showing signs of nausea.
      Thesaurus: pale, pallid, peaked, wan, ill, nauseated, sick, unhealthy.
    8. Not dried or dry.
      Example: green bacon
      Example: green timber
    9. Extremely jealous or envious.
    10. Healthy, vigorous, or flourishing.
      Example: green old age
    11. Applied to the currency values in which EU farm prices are expressed.
      Example: green pound
      Example: green franc
noun
    1. The colour of the leaves of most plants, between yellow and blue in the spectrum.
    2. Something of this colour.
    3. An area of grass, especially one in a public place.
      Example: the village green
      Thesaurus: lawn, grass, field, park, turf, common, greensward, sward.
    4. An area of specially prepared turf.
      Example: bowling green
      Example: putting green
    5. Vegetables with edible green leaves and stems.
      Form: greens
    6. Someone who supports actions or policies designed to protect or benefit the environment, especially someone belonging to or supporting a political party that is concerned about such issues.
      Form: Green (sometimes)
verb
    tr & intr
    greened, greening
    1. To make or become green.
Derivative: greenish
adj
    Derivative: greenness
    noun
      Derivative: greeny
      adj
        Idiom: green about the gills
          colloq
          Looking or feeling sick.
        Etymology: Anglo-Saxon grene.




        greening
        noun
          1. Becoming or making green.
          2. A deliberate policy of planting, especially as part of a project of urban renewal.
          3. The process of becoming or making politically green, ecologically or environmentally conscious, or conservationist.


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