Green
adjective
The color that is a mix of blue and yellow.
The grass is green
Often appears as...
- green leaf
- green light
adjective
Concerned with or seeking to protect the environment.
Green policies
Often appears as...
- green energy
- green recycling
noun
The area of grass where you play golf.
He hit the ball onto the green
Often appears as...
- on the green
- putting green
adjective
Inexperienced or naive.
He's still green and needs more training
Often appears as...
- green with envy
- green around the edges
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Disapproving
noun
A lush, open area covered with plants or grass, often in a city.
Let's meet at the village green
Often appears as...
- village green
- town green
adjective
The color that is a mix of blue and yellow.
The grass is green
Often appears as...
- green leaf
- green light
adjective
Concerned with or seeking to protect the environment.
Green policies
Often appears as...
- green energy
- green recycling
noun
The area of grass where you play golf.
He hit the ball onto the green
Often appears as...
- on the green
- putting green
adjective
Inexperienced or naive.
He's still green and needs more training
Often appears as...
- green with envy
- green around the edges
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A lush, open area covered with plants or grass, often in a city.
Let's meet at the village green
Often appears as...
- village green
- town green
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Pro Tip 1/2Natural Imagery
Green often symbolizes nature, growth, or freshness in English-speaking cultures.
She wore a green dress to symbolize rejuvenation.
Pro Tip 2/2Traffic Signals
Green signals permission or safety, especially with traffic lights or approval processes.
Wait for the green light before proceeding.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Imagery
Green often symbolizes nature, growth, or freshness in English-speaking cultures.
She wore a green dress to symbolize rejuvenation.
Pro Tip 2/2Traffic Signals
Green signals permission or safety, especially with traffic lights or approval processes.
Wait for the green light before proceeding.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Imagery
Green often symbolizes nature, growth, or freshness in English-speaking cultures.
She wore a green dress to symbolize rejuvenation.
Pro Tip 2/2Traffic Signals
Green signals permission or safety, especially with traffic lights or approval processes.
Wait for the green light before proceeding.
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How Mendel's pea plants...
So all the pea kids will be yellow heterozygous. Then, in the second generation, where the two heterozygous kids marry, their babies could have any of the three possible genotypes, showing the two possible phenotypes in a three-to-one proportion. But even peas have a lot of characteristics. For example, besides being yellow or green,
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Nathalie Cabrol: How...
And you can have what we call organic molecules, and these are the bricks of life, and you can have fossils, and you can minerals, biominerals, which is due to the reaction between bacteria and rocks, and of course you can have gases in the atmosphere. And when you look at those tiny green algae
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Can you solve the...
What can you say to help free the prisoners without incurring the dictator's wrath? After thinking long and hard, you tell the crowd, "At least one of you has green eyes." The dictator is suspicious but reassures himself that your statement couldn't have changed anything.
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Can you solve the temple...
Remembering the green smoke, you realize two of the students have been cursed. At any time, one or both of them might lie, though they also might tell the truth. You know for sure that the curse didn't get you, but you don't know which students can't be trusted,
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The scientific origins...
Within a couple of decades of terrible eruptions, Islanders would have seen vibrant green life thriving on new peninsulas made of lava. So it makes sense that the mythology captured this by portraying Pele as creator as well as a destroyer.
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Secrets of the X...
The X chromosome, on the other hand, contains important genes for things other than sex determination or reproduction, like nervous system development, skeletal muscle function, and the receptors in the eyes that detect green light.
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Economics of climate...
estimate that today the world pays a hundred and one billion dollars in subsidies to green energy but in a generations time the bill is not going to go down we will owe two hundred and twenty three billion dollars per year in
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Jellyfish predate...
making it one of the most potent poisons of any animal in the world. Other jellyfish superpowers are less lethal. One species of jellyfish glows green when it's agitated,
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Cities That Are Saving...
of city greening is this grove of super trees these 150 feet high metal structures are now full of life creepers have been planted to grow over the outermost branches
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Deadly Venomous Viper PIPE...
rare but birds small frogs and rodents may not be so lucky ones hidden the green pit uses a combination of tools to hunt
Video examples
How Mendel's pea plants...
So all the pea kids will be yellow heterozygous. Then, in the second generation, where the two heterozygous kids marry, their babies could have any of the three possible genotypes, showing the two possible phenotypes in a three-to-one proportion. But even peas have a lot of characteristics. For example, besides being yellow or green,
Video examples
Nathalie Cabrol: How...
And you can have what we call organic molecules, and these are the bricks of life, and you can have fossils, and you can minerals, biominerals, which is due to the reaction between bacteria and rocks, and of course you can have gases in the atmosphere. And when you look at those tiny green algae
Video examples
Can you solve the...
What can you say to help free the prisoners without incurring the dictator's wrath? After thinking long and hard, you tell the crowd, "At least one of you has green eyes." The dictator is suspicious but reassures himself that your statement couldn't have changed anything.
Video examples
Can you solve the temple...
Remembering the green smoke, you realize two of the students have been cursed. At any time, one or both of them might lie, though they also might tell the truth. You know for sure that the curse didn't get you, but you don't know which students can't be trusted,
Video examples
The scientific origins...
Within a couple of decades of terrible eruptions, Islanders would have seen vibrant green life thriving on new peninsulas made of lava. So it makes sense that the mythology captured this by portraying Pele as creator as well as a destroyer.
Video examples
Secrets of the X...
The X chromosome, on the other hand, contains important genes for things other than sex determination or reproduction, like nervous system development, skeletal muscle function, and the receptors in the eyes that detect green light.
Video examples
Economics of climate...
estimate that today the world pays a hundred and one billion dollars in subsidies to green energy but in a generations time the bill is not going to go down we will owe two hundred and twenty three billion dollars per year in
Video examples
Jellyfish predate...
making it one of the most potent poisons of any animal in the world. Other jellyfish superpowers are less lethal. One species of jellyfish glows green when it's agitated,
Video examples
Cities That Are Saving...
of city greening is this grove of super trees these 150 feet high metal structures are now full of life creepers have been planted to grow over the outermost branches
Video examples
Deadly Venomous Viper PIPE...
rare but birds small frogs and rodents may not be so lucky ones hidden the green pit uses a combination of tools to hunt
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Quote examples
Tyson Fury
American Athlete
How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.
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Tamara Taylor
Canadian Actress
The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, 'I think the light is green, and I'm going to keep doing this.
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Jim Rash
American Actor
I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
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Joe Ingles
Australian Basketball Player
There's nothing like getting out there in the green and gold with your friends and family supporting you.
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Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Torquato Tasso
Italian Poet
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Tristan Thompson
Canadian Athlete
I'm a green guy, the earth is important to me.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Tyson Fury
American Athlete
How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.
Quote examples
Tamara Taylor
Canadian Actress
The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, 'I think the light is green, and I'm going to keep doing this.
Quote examples
Jim Rash
American Actor
I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.
Quote examples
Herman Melville
American Novelist
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
Quote examples
Joe Ingles
Australian Basketball Player
There's nothing like getting out there in the green and gold with your friends and family supporting you.
Quote examples
Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Quote examples
Torquato Tasso
Italian Poet
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Quote examples
Tristan Thompson
Canadian Athlete
I'm a green guy, the earth is important to me.
Quote examples
Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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