1. [n]  the property of being green; resembling the color of growing grass
2. [n]  any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
3. [n]  an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the trap"
4. [n]  a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
5. [n]  a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
6. [n]  an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
7. [n]  United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
8. [adj]  similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green salad"; "green fields"; "green paint"
9. [adj]  showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection"; "he was green with envy"
10. [adj]  not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"
11. [adj]  naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
12. [adj]  looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"
13. [adj]  (of a product) not harmful to the environment
14. [adj]  concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle
15. [v]  turn or become green; "The trees are greening"

1. \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE.
   grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni,
   G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E.
   grow. See {Grow.}]
   1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
      resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
      between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
   2. Having a sickly color; wan.
            To look so green and pale.            --Shak.
   3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
      as, a green manhood; a green wound.
            As valid against such an old and beneficent
            government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
                                                  --Burke.
   4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
      fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
   5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
            We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
                                                  Watts.
   6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained;
      awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
            I might be angry with the officious zeal which
            supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
            gray hairs.                           --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
   7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
      green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
   {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
      rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
      leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
      United States; -- called also {cat brier}.
   {Green con} (Zo["o]l.), the pollock.
   {Green crab} (Zo["o]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
      menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
      named {joe-rocker}.
   {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or
      unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
      crop, etc.
   {Green diallage}. (Min.)
      (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
      (b) Smaragdite.
   {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
      ({Aris[ae]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip;
      -- called also {dragon root}.
   {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
      cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
      as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}.
   {Green ebony}.
      (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having
          a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
          work, and in dyeing.
      (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}.
   {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
      green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
      chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
      to which the color of the flame is due.
   {Green fly} (Zo["o]l.), any green species of plant lice or
      aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
   {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary.
   {Green gland} (Zo["o]l.), one of a pair of large green glands
      in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have
      their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
   {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.]
   {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
      the West Indies and in South America, used for
      shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
      Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[oe]i}, that of Martinique is
      the {Colubrina ferruginosa}.
   {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite.
   {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima});
      -- called also {green sloke}.
   {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite.
   {Green linnet} (Zo["o]l.), the greenfinch.
   {Green looper} (Zo["o]l.), the cankerworm.
   {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine.
   {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
      See {Greengill}.
   {Green monkey} (Zo["o]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey
      ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and
      trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
      Indies early in the last century, and has become very
      abundant there.
   {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
      salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
      of platinum.
   {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
      slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
   {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
      vessel's deck.
   {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis.
   {Green snake} (Zo["o]l.), one of two harmless American snakes
      ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [ae]stivus}). They are
      bright green in color.
   {Green turtle} (Zo["o]l.), an edible marine turtle. See
      {Turtle}.
   {Green vitriol}.
      (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
          substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
          inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
      (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate
          of iron}.
   {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
      yet baked.
   {Green woodpecker} (Zo["o]l.), a common European woodpecker
      ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}.
   

2. \Green\ (gren), n.
   1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
      spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
   2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
      verdant herbage; as, the village green.
            O'er the smooth enameled green.       --Milton.
   3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
      wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
            In that soft season when descending showers Call
            forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                  --Pope.
   4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
      etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
   5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
   {Alkali green} (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid
      derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald
      green; -- called also {Helvetia green}.
   {Berlin green}. (Chem.) See under {Berlin}.
   {Brilliant green} (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling
      emerald green in composition.
   {Brunswick green}, an oxychloride of copper.
   {Chrome green}. See under {Chrome}.
   {Emerald green}. (Chem.)
      (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a
          metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for
          dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a
          brilliant green; -- called also {aldehyde green},
          {acid green}, {malachite green}, {Victoria green},
          {solid green}, etc. It is usually found as a double
          chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.
      (b) See {Paris green} (below).
   {Gaignet's green} (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the
      French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially
      of a basic hydrate of chromium.
   {Methyl green} (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff,
      obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow
      luster; -- called also {light-green}.
   {Mineral green}. See under {Mineral}.
   {Mountain green}. See {Green earth}, under {Green}, a.
   {Paris green} (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting
      of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and
      arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a
      pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but
      particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato
      bug; -- called also {Schweinfurth green}, {imperial
      green}, {Vienna green}, {emerald qreen}, and {mitis
      green}.
   {Scheele's green} (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting
      essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called
      also {Swedish green}. It may enter into various pigments
      called {parrot green}, {pickel green}, {Brunswick green},
      {nereid green}, or {emerald green}.
   

3. \Green\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Greened} (great): p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Greening}.]
   To make green.
         Great spring before Greened all the year. --Thomson.
   

4. \Green\, v. i.
   To become or grow green. --Tennyson.
         By greening slope and singing flood.     --Whittier.
   

A language proposed by Cii Honeywell-Bull to meet the DoD Ironman requirements which led to Ada. This language won in 1979.

["On the GREEN Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):16-21 (Oct 1978)].