OLIVE-GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does olive-green mean? 

• OLIVE-GREEN (noun)
  The noun OLIVE-GREEN has 1 sense:

1. a color that is lighter and greener than olive

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIVE-GREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A color that is lighter and greener than olive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

olive-green; olive green

Hypernyms ("olive-green" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we chose to roll upon our right sides, the whole weald lay in front of us, with the North Downs curving away in olive-green folds, with here and there the snow-white rift of a chalk-pit; if we turned upon our left, we overlooked the huge blue stretch of the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)