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• The stone has a greenish aspect in this light.From the entry aspect
• Tiny, greenish or pinkish, lanternlike flowers hide under branch tips in early to midspring.2007, Glenn Keator, Designing California Native Gardens. From the entry lanternlike
• The outer sepaloids are triangular scale-like, thick, greenish or variously reddish-colored, and fleshy.1997, Beat Ernst Leuenberger, Maihuenia: Monograph of a Patagonian Genus of Cactaceae, page 22. From the entry sepaloid
• Pale greenish brown with heavy overflush of dark maroon-red at the base.1986, Lindleyana, page 336. From the entry overflush
• Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.1972, Hazel Heckman, Island Year, page 132. From the entry youth-on-age
• In the evening we saw before us a vast stretch of greenish and black hills.1961, Hsiao Ying, Sung Cheng-hou, and others, SELECTIONS FROM JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, PEIPING, ON GEOLOGY, EXPLORATION, WEATHER FORECASTING, AND…. From the entry Uigur
• The Lampern, Lampetra fluviatilis, is white, with greenish back; it reaches a length of sixteen inches.1936, Charles Tate Regan, Natural History, Ward Lock, page 194. From the entry lampern
• A yellow greenish peasoup appearance is a frequent occurrence in the severer affections of the gallbladder.1924 February 13, Max Einhorn, “The Importance of the Direct Examination of Bile in the Diagnosis of Gallbladder Lesions”, in Gregory…. From the entry peasoup
• And although it bore a tinted greenish coating, it was not enough to mar the inscription: CHANCE BROTHERS & COMPANY, Ltd.2014, Glenn M. Cosh, “Flashback”, in The Green Flash, Zest Publishing, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry constructioner
• He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308. From the entry glop
• The alkali basalts are fine-grained in hand specimen with scattered phenocrysts of greenish olivine up to 5 mm in size.2011, M. C. Bruce, “Geodiversity of the Southern Barrington Tops Lava Field, New South Wales: A Study in Petrology and Geochemistry”, in…. From the entry clinopyroxene
• The gills of young Sulphur Tufts are greenish yellow to sulphur yellow, darkening to purplish brown in age.1992, David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette, Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide, page 81. From the entry sulphur tuft
• The palms of TV looked especially welcome as the plane clumpered down on a hazy tarmac in a greenish, weedy field.1991, Alexander Buzo, Prue Flies North, page 68. From the entry clumper
• They are small nocturnal forms with a lichenous growth which often gives a greenish tinge to their gray hair.1933, Alfred Sherwood Romer, chapter 9, in Man and the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, published 1937, page 206. From the entry lichenous
• Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter. From the entry bung
• They are made from battery eggs boiled so hard they are greenish around the yolk, then coated with heavily rusked pork sausage meat.1996, Roxy Beaujolais, Home from the Inn Contented: A Cookbook of Simple, Popular Pub Food, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, pages 41…. From the entry deepfry
• Although they were a novelty, we found the greenish artichoke cake and pie quite plain-tasting and not very artichokey, as well as visually unappetizing.1986, Alice M. Geffen, Carole Berglie, Food Festival!: The Ultimate Guidebook to America's Best Regional Food Celebrations, page 154. From the entry artichokey
• Chlorine trifluoride, ClF₃, or "CTF" as the engineers insist on calling it, is a colorless gas, a greenish liquid, or a white solid.1972, John Drury Clark, Ignition!, page 73. From the entry chlorine trifluoride
• She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 23. From the entry jet
• It crest was charged with the same flaming sea-stars, so that a greenish flame was reflected in the stream of the backwash.1923, J. Allan Dunn, “Wild Justice”, in Adventure, volume 39, page 75. From the entry seafire
• A yellowish or greenish micaceous mineral, observed originally at Stenna Gwynn and since found in several china-stone districts in Cornwall, as at St.1905, Frederick William Rudler, A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Islands, page 27. From the entry gilbertite
• When disturbed, all individuals move rapidly back and forth (a behaviour also observed in other ptilomerine genera), presenting a confusing picture of jumping greenish, leggish dots.2005, Ping-ping Chen, Nico Nieser, Herbert Zettel, The Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Bugs. From the entry leggish
• It occasionally has been mistaken for the Smoky-gilled Naematoloma, but the toxic species has a greenish yellow to bright orangish yellow cap and, usually, bitter-tasting flesh.1992, David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette, Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide, page 81. From the entry sulphur tuft
• This cenozone is about 30 m thick (Subathu Section) and consists of greenish grey, calcareous splintery shales which may change to pale olive green shale facies in other sections.1981, The Palaeobotanist - Volumes 28-29, page 395. From the entry cenozone
• There is a greenish sheen across the shoulders of his greasy black suit, for the morning light has of a sudden begun to dance through the bay window.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan. From the entry sheen
• A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain fell.1916, The Wireless Age, page 19. From the entry spitter

Meaning of greenish

1. adjective Somewhat green in color.

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How do you use greenish in a sentence?

Greenish is used as an adjective. For example: “The stone has a greenish aspect in this light.”

What is a short sentence with greenish?

“The stone has a greenish aspect in this light.”

What does greenish mean?

Greenish means somewhat green in color.