Definition of Christmas green

1. Noun. Any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Green

Christmas carols
Christmas cheer
Christmas club
Christmas clubs
Christmas cookie
Christmas cookies
Christmas cracker
Christmas crackers
Christmas creep
Christmas factor
Christmas fern
Christmas ferns
Christmas flower
Christmas gift
Christmas green (current term)
Christmas ham
Christmas hams
Christmas holly
Christmas is coming
Christmas lights
Christmas list
Christmas lists
Christmas number one
Christmas present
Christmas presents
Christmas pudding
Christmas puddings
Christmas rose
Christmas seal

Literary usage of Christmas green

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The life-history of the common Christmas-green club- moss is somewhat as follows: The spores, produced in large quantities, germinate near the surface of ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"We should hear soon of Benevolent Associations for the distribution of Christmas green peas among necessitous members of the upper class. ..."

3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"Christmas-green Plants or Club-mosses. if The plants known as club-mosses are the ones so abundantly used in the manufacture of Christmas-green decorations, ..."

4. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"... or Trailing Christmas green, is a most fascinating plant, with fan-shaped branches, which are forked, and covered with minute leaves with somewhat ..."

5. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1911)
"None of the commissioners named in the act ever served except Thomas Green, Long, Davenport and Christmas. Green and Davenport left Georgia together for ..."

6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"Out of this scene of bustle we passed into the streets, among the gay shops decked out with Christmas green, and through the jostling crowd into narrower ..."

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