Meaning: green

Illustrative Context

The grass was fresh and green.

Target Sense

• Provide the most basic colour term (usually adjectival) that would be used for the colour of fresh foliage.
• In many languages, the correct, basic colour term may also have extended senses such as fresh, unripe or even (figuratively) immature. Avoid, however, terms that are specific to any such senses and are not the basic colour term.
• Avoid terms that are typically limited or specific to green as the colour of living plants only, e.g. English verdant.
• Avoid terms that refer specifically to particular types of plant or vegetation, e.g. greenery, grass, foliage (especially if nouns!).
• Avoid intensifying terms that imply exuberance and vitality of vegetation or landscapes, e.g. verdant, French verdoyant.
• Avoid all and any near-synonymous terms, but which refer to a narrower colour range than the basic colour term for ‘green’, or to sub-shades of it: e.g. sea-green, olive, lime, etc..
• See also the target sense definitions for other colour terms in IE-CoR: red, yellow, black and white.