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BLUISH GREEN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A blue-green color or pigment

Example:

they painted it a light shade of bluish green

Synonyms:

blue green; bluish green; teal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("bluish green" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bluish green"):

cyan (a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color)

 II. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Of a bluish shade of green

Synonyms:

blue-green; bluish green; cyan; teal

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

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