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Definition of Greenish blue
1. Noun. A shade of blue tinged with green.
Generic synonyms: Blue, Blueness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenish Blue
Literary usage of Greenish blue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"With the white background and projection ground, the afterimages of: (I) red
stimuli change from bluish green, at the center, to greenish blue for D and F, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Thus, red and greenish-blue, orange and cyanic-bine, yellow and indigo-blue, and
greenish-yellow and violet all product white. ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1892)
"An olive colored powder with metallic luster, sparingly sol. in water, easily
soluble in sod. carbonate with blue color, in soda lye with greenish blue and ..."
4. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"The greenish-blue line of hydrogen, for instance, manifestly underwent a very
unequal displacement in the spectroscope ; the lower portions, lying close to ..."
5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
"greenish blue. In best focus it was a pale, whitish, ill-defined image, perhaps
stellar. It was involved in a greenish blue atmosphere that fitted close ..."
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