<B>greengage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several varieties of largeplums having a light-green skin and pulp and a fine flavor. </DL>
<A NAME="greengdp">
<B>Green G.D.P.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the consumption of natural resources in the United States economy. <BR> <I>Ex. Government economists hope ... the "Green G.D.P." will help them determine whether the economy is using natural resources faster than it is finding new reserves (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="greengland">
<B>green gland,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of a pair of excretory organs located in the head of certain crustaceans, such as the lobster. </DL>
<A NAME="greengold">
<B>green gold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>vegetation as a valuable natural resource, as in producing alcohol from cellulose or fodder. <DD><B> 2. </B>an alloy of gold and silver. </DL>
<A NAME="greengrocer">
<B>greengrocer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit. </DL>
<A NAME="greengrocery">
<B>greengrocery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ceries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a store that sells fresh vegetables and fruit. </DL>
<A NAME="greengroceries">
<B>green groceries,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> fresh vegetables and fruit. </DL>
<A NAME="greengum">
<B>green gum,</B> <B>=eucalyptus.</B></DL>
<A NAME="greenhead">
<B>greenhead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a male mallard duck. </DL>
<A NAME="greenheart">
<B>greenheart, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large South American tree of the laurel family, whose hard timber is used in shipbuilding and whose bark yields bebeerine; bebeeru. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various other tropical American trees. <DD><B> 3. </B>the greenish, hardwood of any one of these trees. </DL>
<A NAME="greenheron">
<B>green heron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, dark, short-legged North American heron, the most common heron of the eastern United States; fly-up-the-creek. </DL>
<A NAME="greenhorn">
<B>greenhorn, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person without training or experience. <BR> <I>Ex. mere greenhorns, men unused to Indian life (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person easy to trick or cheat. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who has recently arrived in a country or other locale. </DL>
<A NAME="greenhouse">
<B>greenhouse, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a building with a glass roof and glass sides, kept warm for growing plants; hothouse; greenery. (SYN) conservatory. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a clear, plastic-covered enclosure in an aircraft, such as a bombardier's compartment. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the greenhouse effect. <BR> <I>Ex. greenhouse warming.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="greenhouseeffect">
<B>greenhouse effect,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the absorption and retention of the sun's radiation in the earth's atmosphere, resulting in an increase in the temperature of the earth's surface. The greenhouse effect acts much as the glass of a greenhouse that traps air underneath it that is heated by the sun. </DL>
<A NAME="greenhousegas">
<B>greenhouse gas,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gas that warms the atmosphere by trapping heat of the long-wave solar radiation reflected from the earth's surface. <BR> <I>Ex. Carbon dioxide and other radiatively active gases such as methane, ozone, fluorocarbons ... are the greenhouse gases (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="greening">
<B>greening, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various apples with a yellowish-green skin when ripe. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a renewal of youthful freshness; rejuvenation; rebirth. <BR> <I>Ex. The extraordinary thing about this new consciousness is that it ... seems a veritable greening of America (Charles A. Reich).</I> </DL>
<B>Greenlander, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person born or living in Greenland. </DL>
<A NAME="greenlandhalibut">
<B>Greenland halibut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a flatfish found in the cold waters of the Atlantic, often weighing about 20 pounds and colored on both sides. </DL>
<A NAME="greenlandic">
<B>Greenlandic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Greenland, its inhabitants, or their language. <DD><I>noun </I> the Inuit language of Greenland. </DL>
<A NAME="greenlandwhale">
<B>Greenland whale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, black baleen whale of polar regions; arctic right whale. </DL>
<A NAME="greenleadore">
<B>green lead ore,</B> <B>=pyromorphite.</B></DL>
<A NAME="greenlet">
<B>greenlet, </B>noun. <B>=vireo.</B></DL>
<A NAME="greenlight">
<B>green light,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a green trafic signal which indicates that vehicles or pedestrians may proceed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) permission to proceed. <BR> <I>Ex. the Mississippi legislature gave the green light to the state to take over and develop any seaport in the state (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="greenling">
<B>greenling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of large carnivorous fishes found around rocks and kelp in the northern Pacific, used for food. </DL>
<A NAME="greenlung">
<B>green lung,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British Informal.) a park. </DL>
<A NAME="greenly">
<B>greenly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>with a green color or tinge. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) with vigorous growth or life. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) in an awkward manner. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmail">
<B>greenmail, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the buying of a company's shares of stock to threaten a takeover so the company will purchase its stocks at a higher price. <DD><B> 2. </B>the profit made by using greenmail. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to subject to greenmail. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmalt">
<B>green malt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> malt at the sprouting stage, before it is dried in a kiln. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmanure">
<B>green manure,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>green leafy plants, such as clover or alfalfa, plowed under to enrich the soil. <DD><B> 2. </B>manure that has not decayed. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmanure">
<B>green-manure, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nured,</B> <B>-nuring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to fertilize using green manure. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmold">
<B>green mold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a greenish mold, usually of the same genus as that which yields penicillin. Green molds occur on cheese. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmonkey">
<B>green monkey,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a West African monkey having a greenish-gray back, a white ruff, and a long, yellow tail. </DL>
<B>Green Mountain Boys,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of men in Vermont organized about 1770 to roust settlers from New York from their land claims in Vermont. Later many formed a group from Vermont that fought in the American Revolution under Ethan Allen. </DL>
<A NAME="greenmountainstate">
<B>Green Mountain State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> nickname of Vermont. </DL>
<A NAME="greenockite">
<B>greenockite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rare mineral consisting of cadmium sulfide, found in yellow incrustations of crystals. </DL>
<A NAME="greenonion">
<B>green onion,</B> <B>=scallion.</B></DL>
<A NAME="greenpaper">
<B>Green Paper,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a government document in which a proposal or idea is put up for discussion, usually printed on green paper to distinguish it from a white paper, which presents fixed policy. </DL>
<A NAME="greenparty">
<B>Green Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a European political movement that represents environmental interests. </DL>
<A NAME="greenpeafowl">
<B>green peafowl,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a variety of peacocks having a golden-green neck and breast, found in Burma, Malaysia, and Java. </DL>
<A NAME="greenpepper">
<B>green pepper,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the unripe fruit of the sweet pepper plant. It is used as a vegetable. <DD><B> 2. </B>the mild fruit of any variety of the common garden pepper, used as a vegetable before it is ripe. </DL>
<A NAME="greenplover">
<B>green plover,</B> <B>=lapwing.</B></DL>
<A NAME="greenpound">
<B>green pound,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the rate of exchange at which agricultural transactions are conducted within the European Economic Community. </DL>
<A NAME="greenpower">
<B>green power,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the power of money. <BR> <I>Ex. "'Green Power' is important for the Negro now. Pride and dignity come when you reach in your pocket and find money, not a hole" (Whitney Young).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="greenrevolution">
<B>green revolution,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the large-scale development of inexpensive and high-yield varieties of wheat, rice, and other grains, especially to improve the economy of underdeveloped countries. </DL>
<A NAME="greenroom">
<B>greenroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a room in a theater for the use of the performers when they are not on stage. </DL>
<A NAME="greenrussula">
<B>green Russula,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a large group of edible mushrooms, having a gray-green, trumpet-shaped cap. </DL>
<A NAME="greens">
<B>greens, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>green.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="greensand">
<B>greensand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a variety of sandstone containing a silicate of iron and potassium (glauconite) that gives it a greenish color. It is used as a water softener. <DD><B> 2. </B>a mixture of sand, clay, water, and a binder to hold the sand grains together, used in casting metals. </DL>
<A NAME="greensandmarl">
<B>greensand marl,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of marl having a low content of calcium carbonate and high amounts of potash and phosphorus, used as a fertilizer and as a water softener. </DL>
<A NAME="greensapphire">
<B>green sapphire,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a green corundum. </DL>
<A NAME="greenschist">
<B>greenschist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of laminated metamorphic rock containing chlorite. </DL>
<A NAME="greenshank">
<B>greenshank, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a European sandpiper with olive-colored legs. </DL>
<A NAME="greenshellbean">
<B>green shell bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a variety of kidney bean that is picked when full grown, but before the edible seeds have ripened and turned hard. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant on which it grows. </DL>
<A NAME="greensick">
<B>greensick, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> sick with chlorosis. </DL>
