Wiktionary
a. Of a color between blue and green; darker shades are called teal, lighter ones are cyan.
WordNet
adj. a bluish shade of green [syn: bluish green, cyan, teal]
n. a shade of green tinged with blue; "they painted it a light shade of bluish green" [syn: bluish green, teal]
Wikipedia
Blue-green is a color that is a representation of the color that is between blue and green on a typical traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel.
Blue-green belongs to the cyan family of colors.
The source of this color is the List of Crayola crayon colors. Blue-green has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.
Usage examples of "blue-green".
She wore it around her neck, a smooth and somehow oily-looking irregular blue-green disk, bezel set and hung upon a twenty-four-carat gold chain.
Far beyond the bridge he could see Brio Bay sparkling in the afternoon Tight, its blue-green waters dotted with white skimboats.
The faint glow of hidden tights played over rocks and crystals culled from diverse planetary systems, here reflecting from a blue-green amorphous mineral, there glimmering through a clear yellow decahedron.
Aggitj prowled along the rails, staring down into the cuprous blue-green, willing the Sea Min to appear, urgently needing release for the energy pent up in them.
The smoke thus produced reduces the red ferric oxide to blue-green ferrous oxide, or to metallic iron, which combines with the silica present to form a fusible ferrous silicate.
Carp was walking steadily across blue-green vegetation that soaked up a last dribble of sunlight before digging down below-ground and hibernating until spring.
Now that Cassie knew, she could see the resemblance to Chris and Dougthe blond hair and the blue-green eyes that Kori emphasized by wearing a turquoise necklace and ring all the time.
Past a sprinkle of asteroids in the foreground of his synthetic-aperture lidar screen, beyond a red crescent that ought to be Mars, was the blue-green dot of Earth.
Only in the deepest cracks the mosses grew, and the tenacious roots of the blue-green arkenfir.
Etienne came out onto the porch of her cottage to watch three Rethe wade through the thick blue-green stems.
Tethys Sea, Xanadu was a bubble of blue-green glass anchored and buttressed by rudist reefs that twenty-second-century biotechnicians had shaped and trained to their purposes.
Jon-Tom observed that he was floating in slighty murky blue-green water, staring at something that looked like a small barracuda.
On the other side sloped a long incline of beautiful blue-green water, shining like painted glass.
Below, there was a growing sense of eels, and a school of slim, blue-green tealers surged to her left.
Very still, as if fearing to betray itself by sound or movement, was her figure in its blue-green frock, and a brimless toque of brown straw, with two purplish roses squashed together into a band of darker velvet.