单词 | grey-green |
释义 | > as lemmasgrey-green b. Modifying the names of other colours to form adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘greyish’, as grey-black, grey-brown, grey-green, grey-greenish, grey-white, etc. See also sense A. 1b, grey-blue n. and adj. ΚΠ 1566 Exam. John Walsh sig. A.vv His Familiar would somtyme come vnto hym lyke a gray blackish Culuer. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xiii. 21 Butter Burre... Of a greene colour vpon the outside, and of a gray whitishe colour nexte the grounde. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. vi. sig. E2 In these gray white clayes, you shall..see more Wheate sowne then any other Graine. 1679 T. Jordan London in Luster 11 A Princely Shepherdess..in a Robe of gray-green silk and silver. 1706 tr. L. Liger Compl. Florist in tr. F. Gentil Le Jardinier Solitaire 477 Several Branches, cover'd with a grey greenish Lilac Bark. 1804 S. T. Coleridge Let. 5 June (1956) II. 1138 Nothing green meets your eye—one dreary grey-white. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 353 General colour gray-brownish beneath, and whitish under the throat. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 329 Glucina, or its compounds..become grey-black. 1891 T. Salvadori Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XX. 401 Head..of the females above greenish with a grey-bluish tinge. 1958 Climatol. Data: Calif. (U.S. Dept. Commerce. Weather Bureau) 52 218 Funnel cloud had grey-whitish appearance instead of usual black coloring. 1972 M. J. Ursin Life in & around Salt Marshes 33 (caption) Seabeach orach... The leaves are gray-green, the stem tinged with red. 2003 J. van der Vliet Catal. Coptic Inscriptions Sudan National Museum ii. 51 Lower left corner of a stela of grey-pinkish sandstone. < as lemmas |
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