| 单词 | greeny blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreeny blue Modifying colour words to form nouns and adjectives, as greeny blue, greeny yellow, etc. ΚΠ 1835 J. Clare Rural Muse 128 There lay her shining eggs,..Ink-spotted over shells of greeny blue. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 176/2 The flowers are greeny white, and appear in threes, collected in clusters. 1856 Knickerbocker Sept. 284 Just twig that greeny-blue sky, with the stars like billiard-balls rolling over the cloth. 1884 G. M. Fenn Sweet Mace III. ii. 18 A greeny olive snake raised its head. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 13/2 Canard—a new shade of blue inspired by the lovely patch of iridescent greeny blue that occurs on a duck's wing. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 68 Weld, in spite of the rather anaemic, greeny-yellow flowers, has a fine growth on the thin soil of the Cotswolds. 2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) i. vi. 69 The few teeth you could see through the foliage were greeny yallery shading to black at the roots. < as lemmas |
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