What does green mean?

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[n] green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass[v] turn or become green(The trees are greening)[a] of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass(a green tree green fields green paint)[n] a piece of open land for recreation

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[n] green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

[v] turn or become green
(The trees are greening)

[a] of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
(a green tree green fields green paint)

[n] a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
(they went for a walk in the park)

[a] concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

[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)

[a] not fully developed or mature; not ripe
(unripe fruit fried green tomatoes green wood)

[n] an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

[a] looking pale and unhealthy
(you're looking green green around the gills)

[n] a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River

[a] naive and easily deceived or tricked
(at that early age she had been gullible and in love)

[n] an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
(the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker)

[n] any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

[n] street names for ketamine

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