Definition of Olive green

1. Noun. A color that is lighter and greener than olive.

Exact synonyms: Olive-green
Generic synonyms: Green, Greenness, Viridity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Olive Green

olivary eminence
olivaster
olive
olive-backed oriole
olive-brown
olive-drab
olive-drab uniform
olive-like
olive-tipped catheter
olive-tree agaric
olive branch
olive branches
olive brown
olive drab
olive family
olive green (current term)
olive grove
olive groves
olive juice
olive oil
olive oils
olive ridley
olive tree
olive trees
olived
olivegrower
olivegrowing
oliveless
olivelike
oliveness

Literary usage of Olive green

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... deep olive-green at maturity. LHB Leaves alternate, entire or variously cut: heads rather small, with a yellow disk and white or blue rays, terminal, ..."

2. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"... back, etc., less yellowish olive-green; greater wing-coverts very broadly edged with clear sulphur or primrose y* How, and middle coverts broadly tipped ..."

3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1906)
"Top of head sepia brown ; back, rump, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts burnt umber washed with green ; upper tai I -co verts olive-green ; quills dusky ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Nape pale bluish-ash; crown black; chest above yellow; back and rump olive-green. America. THE FLYCATCHERS PROPERLY so CALLED, (Muscicapa, Cuv. ..."

5. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"Upper side : Primaries olive-green with a pale whitish median fascia, beyond which ... Upper side : Primaries obscure olive-green with the fringes regularly ..."

6. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1895)
"Kore wings olive gray, varying to purplish gray, with olive green, ... The outer part of wing is shaded with olive green at the apex and inner angle, ..."

7. Color Key to North American Birds: With Bibliographical Appendix by Frank Michler Chapman, Chester Albert Reed (1912)
"Throat and breast black; cheeks greenish yellow; back olive-green: wing-bars ... Throat dusky; forehead and cheeks yellow; cack olive-green with concealed ..."

8. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"olive green, black underneath. Saucers green within, grey on the outside, sessile, flat or concave, border scolloped, granulated. Dill. (Hoffm. Enum. 13. ..."

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