6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as,
green in years or judgment.
I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its
green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs.
Sir W. Scott.
7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green
wood, timber, etc. Shak.
Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub (Emilaz rotundifolia)
having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of
flowers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier. --
Green con (Zoˆl.), the pollock. -- Green crab (Zoˆl.), an edible, shore
crab (Carcinus menas) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
named joe-rocker. -- Green crop, a crop used for food while in a
growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop,
etc. -- Green diallage. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b)
Smaragdite. -- Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
(ArisÊma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also
dragon root. -- Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment
by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony. (a) A south
American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for
rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian
green ebony. See Ebony. -- Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which
burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the
color of the flame is due. -- Green fly (Zoˆl.), any green species of
plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. --
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary. -- Green gland
(Zoˆl.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to
serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger
antennÊ. -- Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.] -- Green heart (Bot.), the
wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South
America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica
and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodiúi, that of Martinique is the Colubrina
ferruginosa. -- Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite. -- Green laver (Bot.),
an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); -- called also green sloke. --
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite. -- Green linnet (Zoˆl.), the
greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zoˆl.), the cankerworm. -- Green marble
(Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a
pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zoˆl.) a West African
long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed,
and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies
early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. -- Green
salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting
of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. -- Green sand
(Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not
dried before the cast is made. -- Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks
in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. -- Green sickness (Med.),
chlorosis. -- Green snake (Zoˆl.), one of two harmless American snakes
(Cyclophis vernalis, and C. Êstivus). They are bright green in color.
-- Green turtle (Zoˆl.), an edible marine turtle. See Turtle. -- Green
vitriol. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes,
mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of
iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet
baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zoˆl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus
viridis); -- called also yaffle.
Green (gren), n. 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant
herbage; as, the village green.
O'er the smooth enameled green.
Milton.
3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; --
usually in the plural.
In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens,
and wake the rising flowers.
Pope.
4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which
in their green state are boiled for food.