green (green)

adjective

• 1of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass or emeralds: her flashing green eyes the leaves are bright green
• consisting of fresh green vegetables: a green salad
• denoting a green light or flag used as a signal to proceed.
• (of a ski run) of the lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by green markers on the run.
• Physics denoting one of three colours of quark.

• 2covered with grass or other vegetation: proposals that would smother green fields with development
• (usually Green) concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle: official Green candidates
• (of a product or service) not harmful to the environment: traditional, modern, and green funerals

• 3(of a plant or fruit) young or unripe: green shoots
• (of wood, food, or leather) in its original or untreated state; not seasoned, tanned, cured, or dried.
• still strong or vigorous: clubs devoted to keeping green the memory of Sherlock Holmes
• archaic (of a wound) fresh; not healed.

• 4(of a person) inexperienced or naive: a green recruit fresh from college

• 5(of a person or their complexion) pale and sickly-looking: ‘Are you all right?—You look absolutely green’

noun

• 1 [mass noun] green colour or pigment: major roads are marked in green
• green clothes or material: two girls in red and green
• green foliage or vegetation: that lovely canopy of green over Stratford Road
• informal, dated low-grade cannabis: he got hold of some bad green

• 2a green thing, in particular:
• (greens) green vegetables: eat up your greens
• a green light.
• the green ball in snooker.
• informal, dated money: that’s a lot of green

• 3a piece of public grassy land, especially in the centre of a village: a house overlooking the green
• an area of smooth, very short grass immediately surrounding a hole on a golf course: a 60 ft putt on the last green

• 4 (usually Green) a member or supporter of an environmentalist group or party: the Greens' remarkable 15 per cent vote

verb

• 1make or become green in colour: [no object]: the roof was greening with lichen

• 2 [with object] make (an urban or desert area) more verdant by planting trees or other vegetation: they will continue greening the many treeless and dusty suburbs

• 3 [with object] make less harmful to the environment: tips on how to green your home