green salad
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Also see: salad
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
green/ɡriːn/
▶adjective
- 1 of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass.
- 2 covered with grass or other vegetation.
- 3 (of a plant or fruit) young or unripe.
■ (of food, wood, pottery, or leather) in its untreated or original state; not cured, seasoned, fired, etc.
- 4 inexperienced or naive.
- 5 pale and sickly-looking.
- 6 (usu. Green) concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle.
- 7 (of a ski run) of the lowest level of difficulty.
- 1 green colour, pigment, or material.
■ green foliage or growing plants.
- 2 a piece of public grassy land, especially in the centre of a village.
■ an area of smooth, very short grass immediately surrounding a hole on a golf course.
- 3 (greens) green vegetables.
- 4 (usu. Green) a member or supporter of an environmentalist group or party.
- 1 make or become green.
- 2 make less harmful to the environment.
– phrases
the green-eyed monster jealousy personified. [from Shakespeare's Othello (iii. 3. 166).]
green with envy very envious or jealous.
the green-eyed monster jealousy personified. [from Shakespeare's Othello (iii. 3. 166).]
green with envy very envious or jealous.
– derivatives
greenish adjective,
greenly adverb,
greenness noun,
greeny adjective.
greenish adjective,
greenly adverb,
greenness noun,
greeny adjective.
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