Crossword clues for greeny
greeny
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greenfinch \Green"finch`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A European finch ( Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
The Texas sparrow ( Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
Wiktionary
a. greenish; like green, combined with green n. 1 (context pejorative English) a member of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20green%20parties, a green 2 (context slang English) nasal mucus, a bogey
Usage examples of "greeny".
She was tempted at times to declare that Greenies were nonsentient and wash her hands of the whole affair, except that, like everyone else, she had a sneaking suspicion that they were indeed capable of thought.
It had been the tragedy of her younger days that thanks to this voice she had been endlessly pursued by the gentlemen farmers and debs' delights and somethings in the city whom she despised with all her heart, while the greenies and peacemarchers and world--changers with whom she instinctively felt at home treated her with deep suspicion, bordering on resentment.
The many-faceted rainbow jewels of his eyes glistened fleet ingly in the greeny sun.
And there it lay, written on the water, already well behind us but clear and plain-the graphlike squiggle on the long greeny wake which told us that the Jotta Girl had just slightly altered the course of the Titanic.
They seemed healthier and more vibrant after such meals, and their color turned brighter, leading one of the crew to dub them Greenies, a name that stuck.
Their observations of the Greenies were identical to the earlier reports, although they attempted no experiments.
However, upon returning to the Deluros system, they presented their information to the Biology planetoid, and eventually someone who was interested enough to read it gathered all the reports together, and still another expedition was sent to Bareimus III, but this time with the express purpose of learning what made the Greenies tick.
The experiment was repeated numerous times with different Greenies, and always the results were identical.
Next, a number of Greenies were moved not to the ship's greenhouse, but to a patch of ground a few miles from the other Greenies.
The next step was to move larger and larger quantities of Greenies 6 kilometers away from the home colony.
As their number increased, so did their efficiency, until, with 4,367 Greenies present, they functioned as well as they had in the original colony.
Granting that the Greenies, as a group, had a mind, was it a sentient one?
The Greenies could crack almost every maze or hunting situation devised, but they showed no interest in anything else.
And since no one knew what the Greenies were or were not, they had thankfully given the problem to Ulice Ston, who had never even seen a Greenie, and knew next to nothing about botany and alien psychology.
Her first step had been to ascertain the cost and the logistics of evacuating the Greenies from Bareimus III.