Etymology
Origin of greenness
before 900; Middle English, Old English grēnnes. See green, -ness
Example Sentences
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Often working at home, she has pored over satellite data to spot decreases in vegetation greenness during drought, a telltale sign of die-off caused by declining aquifer levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
Interestingly, these associations were only found for actively visiting nature, but not for the amount of greenness around people's homes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
On the journey home, Homer French remarks on the greenness of the sagebrush, after one of the wettest years in recent memory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
De Souza said another attraction of battery swapping is its greenness.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
She sat there and enjoyed the smell and the dark greenness of it.Oh, the mystery of a great tree, a prisoner in a tin wash bucket in a tenement front room!
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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