lime green

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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ˌlime ˈgreen noun [uncountable]  CCa light yellowish green colour 浅黄绿色 —lime-green adjective

Examples from the Corpus

lime green• Tealight candleholders by Design Ideas, for instance, are daisy shaped but colored acid blue, lime green and raspberry.• By flaking off successive layers, the tree displays a bark of beige, cinnamon, lime green and slate blue.• Twachtman puts his lime green in the sky instead of on saguaros, the pale blue on a rock.• His lower body is lime green with a rich shading of deep red across the upper half.• The window frames had been painted lime green approximately seventy-four years ago.• Walls were painted lime green and lilac.• Possibilities remaining were pink, lime green, orange and mauve.• The contrast between the lime green and the rose pink was striking.

ˌlime ˈgreen nounChineseSyllable  

yellowish green Corpus colour light a

lime green
ˌlime ˈgreen noun [uncountable]
a light yellowish green colour
—lime-green adjective

lime greenBrE /ˌlaɪm ˈɡriːn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌlaɪm ˈɡriːn/ 🔊 adjective (also lime) bright yellowish green in colour 来檬绿的；淡绿色的▸ lime green (also lime) noun [uncountable]

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