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PARIS GREEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shade of green tinged with yellow
Synonyms:
chartreuse; Paris green; pea green; yellow green; yellowish green
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("Paris green" is a kind of...):
green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Paris green" is a kind of...):
insect powder; insecticide (a chemical used to kill insects)
pigment (dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.))
double salt (a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization)
