olive-green
green with a yellowish or brownish tinge.
Origin of olive-green
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How to use olive-green in a sentence
Verdigris dissolved in the rinsing water of olive greens is good to revive the colors, a solution of copper is also good.
Abruptly the land itself, in a riot of olive-greens of a thousand hues, reached out its arms and folded the Snark in.
The Cruise of the Snark | Jack LondonAll this lonely world of olive greens and browns had grown strangely dark.
Macleod of Dare | William BlackWith iron mordant they yield olive-greens, which on wool are extremely fast to light.
British Dictionary definitions for olive green
a colour that is greener, stronger, and brighter than olive; deep yellowish-green
(as adjective): an olive-green coat
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