LIGHT-GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light-green mean? 

• LIGHT-GREEN (adjective)
  The adjective LIGHT-GREEN has 1 sense:

1. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

  Familiarity information: LIGHT-GREEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHT-GREEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

Synonyms:

dark-green; green; greenish; light-green

Context example:

green paint

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having reached the spot marked by a line of light-green rushes, we poled out two canoes through them for some hundreds of yards, and eventually emerged into a placid and shallow stream, running clear and transparent over a sandy bottom.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)