ENGLISH: green - CREOLE: vè



Overview of noun green



The noun green has 8 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (6) green, greenness, viridity -- (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

2. (1) park, commons, common, green -- (a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park")

3. Green, William Green -- (United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952))

4. Green -- (an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party)

5. Green, Green River -- (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

6. green, putting green -- (an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the trap")

7. greens, green, leafy vegetable -- (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

8. K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C -- (street names for ketamine)



Overview of verb green



The verb green has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)



1. green -- (turn or become green; "The trees are greening")



Overview of adj green



The adj green has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (26) green, greenish, light-green, dark-green -- (of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint")

2. green -- (concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party)

3. green, unripe, unripened, immature -- (not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood")

4. green -- (looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills")

5. fleeceable, green, gullible -- (naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love")

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