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pea green

noun

  1. a medium or yellowish green.


pea green

noun

    1. a yellowish-green colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      a pea-green teapot



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Word History and Origins

Origin of pea green1

First recorded in 1745–55

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Example Sentences

Wool lace blouses with dolman sleeves topped slim matching skirts in shades of pea green and mauve.

I have never seen a pea-green monkey before, and it strikes me you are quite gorgeous.

Also, I put on Phoebe's pea-green cotton skirt, while my knee britches hung behind the stove, drying.

A woman who talks of nothing but photography and bicycling, and goes about with her fingers pea-green and her legs in gaiters!

The pea-green sunbonnet could not conceal the utter amazement and then the radiance which shot into Sally's face.

An' when the brotherhood was pea-green with seasickness I goes down into the bilges with a big auger an' scuttles the ship.

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