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Definition of Green-blind
1. Adjective. Inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red.
Similar to: Blind, Unsighted
Derivative terms: Deuteranopia, Green-blindness
Definition of Green-blind
1. Adjective. (physiology) Unable to see the colour green because of an inability of the retinae to respond to that light of that colour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green-blind
Literary usage of Green-blind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"parts to some red-green blind. In a spectrum which runs over into a purple, there
may be a shade of yellow visible at the blue end on account of the ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1889)
"He was green-blind. The class of '91 contained ISn members. ... Of the completely
color-blind, two were red- and two were green-blind. ..."
3. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"As the terms red-blind and green-blind imply a more specific condition of ...
As a matter of fact, persons so affected are in reality red-green blind. ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"The green-blind person, according to the same theory, has only the sensations of
red and blue, with the sensation whatever it may be derived from the ..."
5. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The green-blind person, according to the same theory, has only the sensations of
red and blue, with the sensation whatever it may be derived from the ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Daltonism, or red-green blindness, of which there are two varieties, the red-blind
and the green-blind, is the more common defect. ..."
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