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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
greenish
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a reddish/greenish/bluish etc colour (=slightly red, green, blue etc)
▪ The glass used for bottles is often a greenish colour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a greenish tinge
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dozen or so greenish boulders lurked with angular menace below.
▪ Even when ripe, these huge fruits have a greenish yellow skin and flesh, so don't be put off.
▪ Her greenish eyes were wide open, staring sightless at the ceiling.
▪ In the greenish cast of the thallium iodide driving light, Pat lands us gently on pillow basalts.
▪ Now greenish bile is in your mouth, and running into the sink.
▪ The gas-jet projecting from the wall above the fireplace filled the room with a greenish glow.
▪ They are greenish gray to yellowish with many large round dark spots.
▪ They were large and greenish brown.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greenish

Greenish \Green"ish\, a. Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
greenish

late 14c., from green + -ish.

Wiktionary
greenish

a. Somewhat green.

WordNet
greenish

adj. similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint" [syn: green, light-green, dark-green]

Usage examples of "greenish".

Beyond it the heights lifted anew, a waterfall ashine like a drawn blade, a blue-shadowed whiteness blanketing peaks, the greenish gleam of a solid mass.

When the sun sank I sat on the terrace meditating and contemplating the colors of the darkly shimmering well-nigh blackish green foliage of the magnolias, the snow of the mountains opposite, glittering golden in the evening light, above it the luminous, pale greenish blue sky, and below the purplish violet mountain slopes and the soft steel blue lake.

Yet there was no wall, just these pillars, from the tip of which streamed cloudward thin ribbons of a greenish light.

These were old, greenish, as if overgrown in part by some vile lichen, and each had been braced to lie face up, the eyepits, the gaping jaws turned toward the sky.

Four of the ambushers aimed the nozzles of their weapons at Gerlach and sprayed a greenish fluid.

Arising, his sensitive face set in hard lines, the horseleech wiped foul-smelling greenish pus from his hands with a handful of leaves torn from the bush, then approached the komees who sat weeping unashamed tears onto the big, scarred head cradled in his lap.

Though it was difficult to tell precisely in the greenish light, there appeared to be rubies, emeralds, diamonds, sapphires, fire agates, opals, and pearls, according to Lalo, who claimed to have knowledge of such things.

First, he took out a pair of gloves of some greenish, rubberlike substance, and put them on, drawing the long gauntlets up over his coat sleeves.

Those derived from the lower oxide, known as ferrous salts, are generally pale and greenish.

A greenish glow, pleasant, restful, fell on the book-piled desk, the panel of communications screens, shelves of souvenirs and slates that covered the inward walls of the room.

A creature that towered over the Jedi candidates, its massive jaws spread open to reveal a red forked tongue and rows of black teeth that glistened with the greenish ooze of womp rat blood.

CPC, working our way along molded troughs of plastic covered with the greenish silver substrate left by the barnacles, past an electric array, beneath a tree of radiator panels thirty times as tall as a man, and entered the emergency lock at its nether end.

Save that here light was a part of it and the billows shone with a greenish radiance which made me think of long-buried corruption.

The bioengineered plant life hardly showed through the ruddy soil, except to give an occasional greenish tinge to a ridge or depression, or to form a faint reticulated pattern along fractures where water had collected.

It was accompanied by several greenish, carrotlike vegetables, a hunk of gray bread, a square of something resembling white cheese, two bell-shaped fruits with purple skins spotted with crimson, and finally an unclassifiable object which looked like a bunch of grapes that had been dipped in tar.