What is "greenies"

Usage examples of "greenies".

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.

Evacuation usually posed no ecological problems on a race's new world, but, as in all other things, the Greenies were an exception: They would ingest nothing but live food, and there was no way that 45 billion transplanted Greenies would fail to make a dent in any planet's ecological balance.

The Greenies, it was concluded, may have been masters at evasive maneuvering, but they lacked any form of offensive or defensive weaponry that would be effective against anything larger than their normal prey.

The operation could not be done any faster, her report continued, because in addition to 45 billion Greenies, the Oligarchy would also have to move the entire rodent population of Bareimus III, and a goodly number of its insects as well.

The Oligarchy assured her that were the Greenies truly sentient, they would spare no expense in relocating the race and all that it needed to survive.