DARK-GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dark-green mean? 

• DARK-GREEN (adjective)
  The adjective DARK-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: DARK-GREEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARK-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 

It is a dark-green, thick substance composed of mucus, intestinal secretions, hair, and intestinal mucosa cells.

(Meconium, NCI Thesaurus)

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)