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Underfoot, in spots, sang the marsh-wrens; in larger patches the sharp-tailed sparrows; and almost as wide-spread and constant as the green was the singing of the seaside sparrows.

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  1. noun The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. noun Something green in color.
  3. noun Green growth or foliage, especially:
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  • And the fringes of the green were always seeking around her, excellent shielding. —  Author Galley
  • More or less opposite Beckman Drive on the other side of the green was another residential street, running east, with a convenience store standing alone on the corner. —  Killing Floor by Lee Child
  • I cannot say why, but I feel more removed from the scene than a part—as if Sam and I and the bench and the green are the image on the missing piece of a massive jigsaw. —  FSFApril2005
  • In addition, golfers whose tee shots landed and remained on the green were awarded an individually-boxed Titleist pink ribbon logo golf ball.
  • The complete opposite of the colour green is the colour red. —  1UP RSS feed
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  1. Middle English grene, from Old English grēne; see ghrē- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 7 translation of German (die) Grünen, (the) Greens, from grün, green.

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  1. from Middle English grene, from Anglo-Saxon grēne, Old Northumbrian groene, earliest form groeni = Old Saxon grōni = OFries. grēne = Dutch groen = Middle Low German grōne, Low German grön = Old High German gruoni, Middle High German grüene, German grün, dial. grun = Icelandic grænn (for *groenn) = Swedish Danish grön, green; with formative -ni, from Anglo-Saxon grōwan, English grow, etc.: see grow. To the same root belong prob. grass and perhaps gorse. The words yellow and gold, which are sometimes said to be ult. akin to green, belong to a different root.
  2. from Middle English grenen, from Anglo-Saxon grēnian, intransitive, become green, flourish, = Dutch groenen = Middle Low German gronen = Old High German gruonēn, cruanēn, Middle High German gruonen, German grünen = Icelandic grōna = Danish reflexive grönnes (cf. Swedish grönska), become green; from the adjective
  3. Scots, also grein, grien; from Middle English grenen, variant of gernen, from Anglo-Saxon geornan, long, yearn: see yearn.
 

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