green

     

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoke by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570-nm. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered one of the additive primary colors. On the HSV color wheel, the complement of green is magenta; that is, a purple color corresponding to an equal mixture of red and blue light. On a color wheel based on traditional color theory (RYB), the complementary color to green is considered to be red.

Trivia about green

  • Don't be alarmed if your lasagne verde is this color; it's supposed to be
  • Cabbage, whose leaves of the most common varieties are red, purple, white or this color
  • Test the mineral olivenite & it will leave a streak of this color
  • The usual color of the flesh of a honeydew melon
  • Heloise suggests dyeing your kids' pancakes this color on Saint Patrick's Day
  • The sought-after imperial jade is usually this color
  • Kendal & Kelly are shades of this
  • Here's a hint from Heloise: celebrate St. Patrick's Day by dyeing your mashed potatoes this color
  • At their Gettysburg home, Mamie Eisenhower's bathroom was pink & Ike's was this color (remember, he was a soldier)
  • A carbonate of copper, the ornamental stone malachite is this color
  • The Russian blue's eyes, this color, may be the "envy" of other felines
  • Pistachio is a shade of this color
  • "No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen, for there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the" this
  • It's the color of Scarlett O' Hara's eyes -- we're "envious"
  • Even in 1638 John Wilkins thought it was an absurdity that the moon was made out of this color cheese
  • It's the predominant body color of most parrots
  • Screamin & Caribbean are 2 of our favorite shades of this (okay, we like the Forest shade, too)
  • Elle magazine touted harem, zucchini & cash as trendy eye shadow shades of this color
  • The 20 in the lower right is designed to appear black from an angle, but this color from straight on
  • If you were jealous of someone's pack of crayons, you'd be this "with envy"
  • Color represented with white & red on the Irish flag
  • This area of closely-cropped grass surrounds each hole in golf
  • Area where the pin is a marker for the hole
  • (1965-1971)"_____ Acres"
  • The defect called deuteranopia usually causes confusion of red & this color; a possible problem at traffic signals
  • We envy the Egyptian mau cat, whose eyes are the gooseberry shade of this color
  • Apple, beryl & absinthe are shades of this color
  • New, inexperienced or envious
  • For a while the Hulk was gray, but now he's this color
  • It's the color that's usually found before "tea ice cream"
  • The Subaru Forester comes in colors like spark silver & sage this
  • Related to red hemoglobin, chlorocruorin, a pigment in some worms, is this color
  • Color of the left hand stripe on the flag of Italy; it's not a color in Neapolitan ice cream
  • Malachite & peridot are gems of this color
  • In the Irish language, this very Irish color is glas, & the political party is Comhaontas Glas
  • This color is featured prominently, even for the links, on treehugger.com
  • Author unknown:"Sir Gawain and the ____ Knight"
  • This term once meant an entire golf course; now it refers to the area surrounding the cup
  • 2000:Ralph Nader
  • Color of a peridot
  • Olive,hunter,kelly
  • The Amazon group of parrots is predominately this color
  • Let's dramatize your look with some Hard Candy mascara in pickle, a shade of this color
  • The "Ver" in Vermont comes from a French word for this color
  • The Italian flag is not red, white & blue, but red, white & this color
  • Color of Hudson's "Mansions" or Williams' "Corn"(5)
  • A likely problem at traffic signals, the defect called deuteranopia usually causes confusion of red & this color
  • Since 1962 it's been a tradition to dye the Chicago River this color for a special day in March
  • Mint & moss
  • Ted is envious of Libya's flag because it has just this one color
  • National guide signs for motorist services are blue; guide signs for directions, this color
  • The 3 colors on the flag of Italy are red, white & this
  • If you make it right, your salsa verde should be this color
  • Robin Hood's getup, traditionally: Lincoln this
  • If you stare at a bright red dot & then at a white wall, you'll see an afterimage of the same dot in this color
  • Of Red, Green, or Puce, the one who's a servant to Shakespeare's King Richard II
  • Naive or inexperienced
  • As its name says, salsa verde is made with chiles & tomatillos that are this color
  • To the Greeks, chloros was a pale shade of this color; hence chlorine & chlorophyll
  • It's the color of malachite, a mineral from which copper is obtained
  • Fleet-footed RB Ahman, or sweet-voiced Rev. Al
  • Iraq's flag consists of stripes of red, white & black & three stars of this color
  • Its wavelength is about 500 to 550 nanometers, & it means "go"
  • Light or thumb
  • Environmentally sound, or unripe
  • Orange,yellow...(wavelength about 510 nanometers)
  • According to Webster's, the serpentine shade of this color is "paler than citrine"
  • Hot-cha-cha! New Mexico's official state question is "red or" this?
  • "Soylent ___"
  • During the Old Kingdom, Egyptians would paint their eyelids this color using malachite, an oxide of copper