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degreened

degreened is the simple past and past participle of degreen.

Meaning of degreen

Verb

degreen (third-person singular simple present degreens, present participle degreening, simple past and past participle degreened)

  1. (transitive) To remove the green pigment (chlorophyll) from the skins of mature fruit, typically by treatment with ethylene.
  2. (ambitransitive) Of fruit: to have the green pigment removed.

Questions about degreened

What is degreened the simple past and past participle of?
Degreened is the simple past and past participle of degreen.

Words near degreened in the dictionary

  1. degree-days
  2. degreed
  3. degreeless
  4. degreelessness
  5. degreen
  6. degreened
  7. degreenified
  8. degreenifies
  9. degreenify
  10. degreenifying
  11. degreening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: degreened (page history and authors); degreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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