Word Finder - green

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Having green as its color.

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The former flag of Libya is fully green.

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(of people) Sickly, unwell.

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Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?

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Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.

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(of people) Inexperienced.

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John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.

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(of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.

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(of people) Overcome with envy.

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He was green with envy.

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Environmentally friendly.

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Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.

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Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.

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Not fully roasted; half raw.

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Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.

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That timber is still too green to be used.

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High or too high in acidity.

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Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.

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a green manhood;   a green wound

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Having a sexual connotation.

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Having a color charge of green.

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Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.

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the green pound; the green lira

A large green book caught her attention.

His green eyes were distant.

Are you sure his name is Green; not Greely?

The two women adjourned to the front porch to cut green beans and shuck corn.

After leaving the church, amid handshakes and greetings from town friends, the couple was surprised to meet Pumpkin Green.

Dean was in front of Bird Song, trying to mow the lawn, still blanketed with the moisture of the now-ended drizzle when he remembered his promise to pick up Pumpkin Green and whoever else needed chauffeuring from the pool.

They were green, glowing and healthy.

Their eyes met for a moment... piercing blue eyes meeting startled green eyes in a battle of nerve.

You even touched it, maybe saw little green men.

Pumpkin Green strolled into the inn, arm in arm with Billy Langstrom's female friend, Melissa.

The very next day they came in sight of a little green island.

I'm just … waiting for the green light.

The green fog appeared at his words.

Distressed by the idea, she found herself standing before the French doors again, looking at the green haze over the forest.

The bedchamber was done up in pastels, soft rose drapes, light blue and green rugs, yellow pillows and highlights, which seemed to take the chill out of the stone walls.

His pupils were contracted by the bright sunlight and his light green eyes contrasted sharply with his bronze tan.

Even Pumpkin Green, the trekking philosopher, tossed in his two cents.

Monday was transition day at Bird Song, with the arrival of six new guests to fill three vacated rooms, with only the four Dawkins, Brandon Westlake, and Pumpkin Green staying on.

His replacement early morning audience consisted of two old ladies from Indiana who'd just checked in, Pumpkin Green, and Paulette Dawkins.

Dean bumped into Pumpkin Green, who was leaving, a black cape and tuxedo over his arm.

Reminded of Pumpkin Green, he wondered where the young hiker had spent the cool night.

The trio had pretty much dismissed Pumpkin Green's involvement in spite of his connection with the play.

Her eyes went to the green glow of souls again.

The green gems were caught in some sort of invisible current that ended when it reached the bank.

The green fog appeared.

The rocking chairs were back, four in a row, red, green, yellow, and purple, adding a blaze of color against the century-old white building of Bird Song.

It was Pumpkin Green's third day since arriving with an overladen shopping cart he insisted on lugging to his second floor room.

Pumpkin Green returned while Dean was killing the few minutes before he left.

All the peaks remained snow-capped, giving sharply defined contrast to the green of their slopes and the blue of the summer sky.

Dean and his wife joined the group, followed by Brandon Westlake, Pumpkin Green, and a newly arrived Midwesterner named Hank.

Most of the guests seemed content in the parlor, listening to Pumpkin Green ramble away about his upcoming Fourth of July water fight.

Pumpkin Green would have known about the bones.

He kept an eye out for Billy Langstrom, whom he still hoped to talk to, but he spotted neither him nor Pumpkin Green in the crowd.

In addition to the four Dawkins, there was Pumpkin Green, the grocery cart vagabond, and old Brandon Westlake, camera buff supreme.

While sleep was only partially suspended and Dean's fantasy returned, morning brought the news that the noise had been real—Pumpkin Green had left in the night, bumping his shopping cart down the stairs to a clandestine exit.

While Pumpkin Green was not at this week's mass, or probably any other service within miles of Ouray, Billy Langstrom's partner in love Melissa attended.

When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

Gabriel's attention was caught on a faint green glow on a table in the middle of the stacks of dead bodies.

The glowing green gems on the bottom were souls the demons had extracted.

Deidre gazed around her, eyes settling on the green glow, visible through the French doors.

The needles were long and soft, their vibrant green coloring leaving her breathless.

Harmony was tall and willowy with red hair and green eyes.

Green smoke swirled from the man's ears and mouth, forming a fog around Gabe's hand before crystallizing into a small emerald.

He watched the green gem form in his palm and rose.

He glanced at Harmony, whose green gaze was on the ocean.

The green gems reflected the sunshine, shimmering through the clear water.

He stopped beside her, gaze on the lake that glowed green in the quiet night.

They led onto a balcony, but it was the eerie green glow beyond that caught her attention.

Orienting herself, she caught sight of the green haze again and walked along the edge of the forest, seeking a path.

She stopped a dozen meters before the edge of the forest, wondering if there was any sort of hazard in being so close to whatever it was causing the lake to be green in the first place.