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# green

«green» in Mova's school dictionary: **the colour of grass and leaves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (green, greener, greenest); noun (green, greens)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Green is the colour of grass and leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m1)

2) Green means not ripe yet: «green bananas». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m2)

3) Green means good for nature: «green energy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m3)

4) A green is a grassy area: a village green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m4)

5) Greens are green vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

a colour that tells one kind of a thing from another: green apples, green peaches, green marbles; in science and art, blue and yellow make green; plants are green because of chlorophyll; phrases: «green light» (go), «green with envy», «go green», «eat your greens»

### examples

- There are 7 red peaches and 15 green peaches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x1)
- How many green apples are in the basket? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x2)
- How many more green peaches than red? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x3)
- She has 12 green marbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x4)
- The grass is green after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x5)
- Wait for the green man before you cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x6)
- Blue and yellow make green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x7)
- Eat your greens; they are good for you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x8)

### note

A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.

### In the corpora

- [Red-green colour blindness affects about 1 in 12 men of European descent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/15/)
- [Green algae grow in a sloth's fur and help to hide it among the leaves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/9/)
- [Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/15/)
- [Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/11/)
- [Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «green» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.