Green colour of things other than plants, as the sea, precious stones, clothing, etc. Also: an instance or variety of this. Cf. green, adj. 1b.

Green colour; greenness. In plural: different tints of green. †in green (Heraldry): on a field of green (obsolete).

Greenness. Also figurative: immaturity (see green, adj. 8).

Greenness.

The fresh green colour characteristic of flourishing vegetation; greenness, viridity.

The quality or state of being virid or green; greenness, verdancy. Also in figurative context.

The colour green; spec. in Heraldry, vert.

The state or condition of being in blossom, blossoming. Of vegetation: Luxuriant growth, luxuriance, greenness. Obsolete.

A dark, intense green colour.

Fresh greenness (of vegetation); figurative fresh or flourishing condition.

The quality, condition, or character of being verdant; greenness.

= verdure, n.

An artist's pigment in various shades of olive green made by mixing Prussian blue with a yellow pigment, usually chrome yellow. Cf. chrome green n.…

(See quot. 1896.)

Greenness.

poetic. The colour green. rare.