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blue-green

adjective

In Latin: venetus Wiktionary

adjective Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about blue-green at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Of a bluish shade of green.

Origin

From blue + green. * (color): Compare with the color called orange in Modern English, which was called geoluread (“yellow-red”) in Old English and Middle English. * (politics): from blue representing conservatism and green representing environmentalism

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