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apple green

noun

  1. a clear, light green.


apple green

noun

    1. a bright light green or moderate yellowish-green
    2. ( as adjective )

      an apple-green carpet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of apple green1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner.

The painter here represented the Cigale, or Cicada, under the form of a magnificent apple-green grasshopper.

"And the most charming morning-gown you ever saw—apple green, and dark green, striped—and lined with pink silk," rejoined a third.

At first it looks like a shapeless mass of apple-green jelly.

His right hand, covered with a glove of apple-green colour, was pressing the key of Paradise.

The sky had cleared; in the west shone a faint band of clear apple green in which burned one lucent star.

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