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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several varieties of green-skinned apples, especially the Rhode Island Greening.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A becoming or growing green.
  • noun Specifically In oyster-culture, the process of becoming or the state of being green-gilled. See green-gilled.
  • noun Any variety of apple of which the ripe skin has a green color. The Rhode Island greening is the most prized in the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of green.
  • noun The action of the verb to green.
  • noun obsolete A type of pear.
  • noun A type of apple that is green when ripe.
  • adjective Becoming green in colour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored

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Examples

  • More than 15 years ago, Secretary of State Jim Baker spoke eloquently about what he called the greening of our foreign policy, and that's exactly why we are here today.

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  • North American universities and colleges have made rapid progress in 'greening' campuses, according to theCollege Sustainability Report Card 2008.

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  • North American universities and colleges have made rapid progress in 'greening' campuses, according to theCollege Sustainability Report Card 2008.

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  • Two years ago Major League Baseball partnered with the National Resources Defense Council to help assist baseball parks in greening their facilities and operations.

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  • Ignoring these interrelationships resulted in greening studies that could not be effectively applied, as the “guidelines may be environmentally sound but not necessarily suitable, attractive or feasible in neighborhoods …”

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  • While U.S. schools have done well in greening their campuses — rare is the day that passes without a college announcing a new green building or program for energy efficiency — colleges are lacking when it comes to sustainable education.

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  • While U.S. schools have done well in greening their campuses — rare is the day that passes without a college announcing a new green building or program for energy efficiency — colleges are lacking when it comes to sustainable education.

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  • But by turning these spaces into farms and gardens, they present long-term greening and financial opportunities for residents that lack basic health and nutritional care, not to mention radically decreased economic opportunities during the recession.

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  • The Report Card will be important for these schools as they consider the next steps they can take in greening their campuses and communities.

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  • The Report Card will be important for these schools as they consider the next steps they can take in greening their campuses and communities.

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