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  2. Shades of green - Wikipedia

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    Pine green is a rich dark shade of cyan that resembles the color of pine trees. It is an official Crayola color (since 1903) that is this exact shade in the Crayola crayon, but in the markers, it is known as crocodile green. The color pine green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a coniferous forest.

  3. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    The clear blue sky and fresh green vegetables were considered shades of a single color which could even include black as its darkest hue in some contexts. Modern Standard Mandarin does make the blue-green distinction using lǜ (绿; 綠 'leafy') for green and lán (蓝; 藍 'indigo') for blue. Qīng was associated with health, prosperity, and ...

  4. Spring green - Wikipedia

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    Bottle green is a dark shade of green, similar to pine green. It is a representation of the color of green glass bottles. Green bottles on a windowsill. The first recorded use of bottle green as a color name in English was in 1816. Bottle green is a color in Prismacolor marker and pencil sets.

  5. Green - Wikipedia

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    Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm.In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue ...

  6. Viridian - Wikipedia

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    Viridian. Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium (III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed of a majority of green, followed by blue. The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s. [2] Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green". [3]

  7. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different associations within ...

  8. Teal - Wikipedia

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    Teal green is a darker shade of teal with more green. It is a variable color averaging a dark bluish-green that is green, darker, and stronger than invisible green or pine tree. Teal green is most closely related to the Crayola crayon color Deep Space Sparkle. Deep sea green

  9. Olive (color) - Wikipedia

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    Olive drab is variously described as a "A brownish-green colour" (Oxford English Dictionary); "a shade of greenish-brown" (Webster's New World Dictionary); "a dark gray-green" (MacMillan English dictionary); "a grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray" (American Heritage Dictionary); or "A dull but fairly strong gray-green color" (Collins English Dictionary).

  10. Chartreuse (color) - Wikipedia

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    Chartreuse ( US: / ʃɑːrˈtruːz, - ˈtruːs / ⓘ, UK: /- ˈtrɜːz /, [1] French: [ʃaʁtʁøz] ⓘ ), also known as yellow-green or greenish yellow, is a color between yellow and green. [2] It was named because of its resemblance to the French liqueur green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color ...

  11. Color - Wikipedia

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    Color. Colored pencils. Color ( American English) or colour ( Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra and interference.