greenness

[ UK /ɡɹˈiːnnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹinnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
  2. the state of not being ripe
  3. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
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How To Use greenness In A Sentence

  • What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk All hope of greenness? The Waste Lands
  • The character is a certain greenness of aroma and flavour that at its worst is like fresh-cut grass, or even hedge clippings.
  • A Swiss company offers to help environmental investors by sending teams round factories to ascertain their greenness.
  • Its beauty is dependent on its dampness and greenness, and it looks awful when it is too dry.
  • China's commitment to greenness appears to be ebbing.
  • Just watching that, and despite the graininess of the pictures and the greenness of the night. as it looks through the nightscope, that is a remarkable scene. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2003
  • You cease to care much for the melancholy greenness of the disfeatured statues which has been your chief winter's intimation of verdure; and before you are quite conscious of the tender streaks and patches in the great quaint grassy arena round which the Propaganda students, in their long skirts, wander slowly, like dusky seraphs revolving the gossip of Paradise, you spy the brave little violets uncapping their azure brows beneath the high-stemmed pines. Italian Hours
  • Venture inland and there are the foothills of the Pyrenees and the greenness of the fields always surprises UK visitors to northern Spain, who expect to see the arid conditions which predominate further south.
  • The village and its fields were enclosed by barbed wire which separated their greenness from the bleakness of the enmity all around. Shimon Peres - Nobel Lecture
  • More wine producers should combine the zesty greenness of sauvignon blanc with the appley richness of chardonnay.
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