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Definition of Bluish green
1. Noun. A blue-green color or pigment. "They painted it a light shade of bluish green"
Generic synonyms: Green, Greenness, Viridity
Specialized synonyms: Cyan
Derivative terms: Teal
2. Adjective. Of a bluish shade of green.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluish Green
Literary usage of Bluish green
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Of a pale, luminous sea- green color ; of a bluish green or greenish blue ;
specifically, in bot. and zoöl., dull-green passing into grayish-blue. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"A decorative species of dense habit when young and with rather light bluish green
foliage; it endures heat and drought much better than the two preceding ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The partially color-blind will place bluish-green and gray wools with the ...
The test may be carried further by selecting a bluish-green or a gray wool as ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"as compared with the grey, we note that the most periphera after-images of: (i)
red stimuli (bluish green at the fovea) are slightly greener; ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Of a pale, luminous sea- green color ; of a bluish green or greenish blue ;
specifically, in bot. and zoöl., dull-green passing into grayish-blue. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"A decorative species of dense habit when young and with rather light bluish green
foliage; it endures heat and drought much better than the two preceding ..."
7. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The partially color-blind will place bluish-green and gray wools with the ...
The test may be carried further by selecting a bluish-green or a gray wool as ..."
8. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"as compared with the grey, we note that the most periphera after-images of: (i)
red stimuli (bluish green at the fovea) are slightly greener; ..."
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