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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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His social media presence is filled with pictures of him standing next to his lime green McLaren 600 LT and smiling with his wife and five children.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Gehry respected the industrial bones while adding sculptural flourishes — punctured facades, angled walls, stepping rooflines, and strange material contrasts, such as lime green tiles next to raw steel columns.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 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

Has your life been touched by a block of lime green and low resolution Arial font this summer?

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

I can see how it worked: The citrus packers walked from those lime green cement-block houses into that packing plant—that huge and magnificent structure.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

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