BLUE GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue green mean? 

• BLUE GREEN (noun)
  The noun BLUE GREEN has 1 sense:

1. a blue-green color or pigment

  Familiarity information: BLUE GREEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE GREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blue-green color or pigment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blue green; bluish green; teal

Context example:

they painted it a light shade of bluish green

Hypernyms ("blue green" is a kind of...):

green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blue green"):

cyan (a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color)

 Context examples 

A class of compounds isolated from a marine cyanobacterium species (blue green alga).

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