sap green
a green pigment obtained from the juice of buckthorn berries, used chiefly in dyes for wood, paper, and textiles.
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The house is full of “sickness and strain,” which Coral escapes by walking through the “dark craw” of the nearby sap green Forest.
3 Secret Novels: Coral Glynn, The Thief, and Bloodland | Claiborne Smith, Hugh Ryan, Jane Ciabattari | March 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThen comes a sap-green lackey, stiff as a ramrod, with a package under his arm.
Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) | Frank Wedekindsap green (10 or 12 gr., rubbed up with a teaspoonful of hot water) is also used for the same purpose.
The foreign is uniformly adulterated with chalk or starch, and coloured with sap green.
Then, one morning, Will woke up to find that the ocean had changed overnight from a warm sap-green to a muddy clay-color.
The Inca Emerald | Samuel Scoville
When mixed with lime and evaporated to dryness, it forms the color called sap-green.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom | P. L. Simmonds
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