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lime green

British  

noun

    1. a moderate greenish-yellow colour

    2. ( as adjective )

      a lime-green dress

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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What’s the story with the lime green zoot suit?

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

After the organic success of Charli XCX’s “Brat” led to brand accounts co-opting that album’s lime green color scheme and sans-serif typeface, it’s no surprise that the trend is continuing with Swift.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2025

And there, highlighted in lime green, were portions of my note, already written for me by the A.I.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

The most endangered of those is Polymita sulphurosa, which is lime green with blue flame patterns around its coils and bright orange and yellow bands across its shell.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2025

There is the same lime green spine of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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