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Definition of Light-green
1. Adjective. Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass. "Green paint"
Similar to: Chromatic
Derivative terms: Green, Greenness, Greenishness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-green
Literary usage of Light-green
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"... colourless, and without any definite action on polarised light. Some are light
green ; these are augite. The inclusions, which are of ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1801)
"Violet blue mixed with grey. Seagreen. A very light green, a mixture of verdigris
... A light green formed of verdigris green and white. Grafs green. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Tree, to 80 or 100 ft., with long and slender branches: bark flaky, light gray:
young branches grayish green, glabrous: Ivs. rigid, acute, light green, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Beryl varies from blue through light green to yellow, when it is called ...
It is a rare mineral, of various shades of yellow, brown, light green and dark ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Wilhelm Miller, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"... spreading and pendulous. light green and lustrous, 9-12 in. long, ...
Very decorative as a young plant, with its long drooping light green foliage. ..."
6. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1847)
"The precipitate, when dried, forms irregular rather hard pieces of a dark green
colour ; light green on the surface. This green possesses a greater ..."
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