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A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.

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    A native of Greenland.
  • COLORMAN
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  • GREENLET
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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • GREENSAND
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  • GREENOCKITE
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  • OLIVERIAN
    An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • OLIVED
    Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • OLIVEWOOD
    The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
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    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
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    One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
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    The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
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    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • PHAEOSPORE
    A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • EPISPORE
    The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • DIASPORE
    A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.

 

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