Niagara green

Or niagara green

noun

1. a light bluish green.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Niagara green¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

The stream changed from its recent Niagara green to a brown like that of the Hudson; and under its waters, as we hugged the Oregon side, could be seen a submerged alluvial plateau, studded thick with drowned stumps, here and there lifting their splintered tops above the water, and measuring from the diameter of a sapling to that of a trunk which might once have been one hundred feet high.

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