Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An olive-green pigment commonly made from glauconite, used by artists.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
terra verde (which see, underterra ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See
glauconite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
olive -green earth used as apigment .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French : terre, earth (from Latin terra; see ters- in Indo-European roots) + verte, feminine of vert, green (from Old French verd; see verdant).]
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French, from terre earth + vert, verte, green.
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Examples
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a flowerpot filled with moss; or, if preferred, the flowerpot may be filled with wax, in _terre-verte_ green, and the stems must be placed in it before the wax gets hard.
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