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Another word for long green

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Noun

  1. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange

      1. A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes including small amounts of other metals, but usually 67 percent copper and 33 percent zinc.
      2. Ornaments, objects, or utensils made of this alloy.
      3. The section of a band or an orchestra composed of brass instruments.
      1. To make a thin shallow cut or mark on (a surface) with a sharp instrument.
      2. To use the nails or claws to dig or scrape at.
      3. To rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching.
      1. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca of the composite family, especially L. sativa, cultivated for its edible leaves.
      2. The leaves of L. sativa, used especially in salads.
      3. Paper money.
      1. A man; a fellow.
      2. One who does odd or heavy jobs; a laborer.
      3. One who works in a specified manual trade. Often used in combination:
      1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
      2. Something green in color.
      3. The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.
      1. A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.
      2. A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
      3. Money.
      1. Any of several forms of a vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) of the mustard family, having a globose head consisting of a short stem and tightly overlapping green to purplish leaves.
      2. Any of several similar or related plants, such as Chinese cabbage.
      3. The terminal bud of several species of palm, eaten as a vegetable.
      1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
      2. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
      3. Something that nourishes; sustenance:
      1. Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts, formerly used by certain Native American peoples as currency and jewelry or for ceremonial exchanges between groups.
      2. Money.
      1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account.
      2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government.
      3. Assets and property considered in terms of monetary value; wealth.
      1. Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.
      2. Transmission from person to person as a medium of exchange; circulation:
      3. General acceptance or use; prevalence:
      1. Money in the form of bills or coins; currency.
      2. Liquid assets including bank deposits and marketable securities.
      3. Money paid in currency or by check:
    See also:

    money

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Sentence Examples

  • It is often depicted with a flowing tail, which appendix attests close observation of nature; for the mino-game, as it is called, represents a tortoise to which, in the course of many scores of years, confcrvae have attached themselves so as to form an appendage of long green locks as the creature swims about.

  • The tree is a tall evergreen, which produces long green seed pods that look rather like round broad beans.

  • The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire--"et primitus oritur herba imbribus primoribus evocata"--as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame;--the symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year's hay with the fresh life below.

  • It makes a bold spreading mass of 2 to 3 feet, with hairy green or purple stems, and long green leaves which are rough on the upper side and hoary beneath; flowers violet-purple, from July to September.

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