olive-green
green with a yellowish or brownish tinge.
Origin of olive-green
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How to use olive-green in a sentence
Its olive-green fuselage stood out against the snowed peaks.
Colors were vivid and autumnal, including fuchsia and olive green with metallic shimmers.
Valentino, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week | Liza Foreman | March 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe knocked loose the olive-green keffiyeh he wore over his black curls.
He wore an olive green coat, yellow waistcoat, and light grey trousers, strapped over his boots.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandOn cooling over night, an olive green precipitate separated out which was dried and found to be a light powder.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron) | William Anderson Syme
The residue in the dish consisted of undecomposed tar and an olive-green flaky substance.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron) | William Anderson SymeThe ebbed waters lay beyond, very far away, across this plain of slimy weed, of a black and shining olive-green.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. | Guy de MaupassantIn the middle of the wall hung a large olive-green card with silver lettering.
Hyacinth | George A. Birmingham
British Dictionary definitions for olive green
a colour that is greener, stronger, and brighter than olive; deep yellowish-green
(as adjective): an olive-green coat
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