terre-verte

English

Etymology

From French terre (“earth”) + vert, verte (“green”).

Noun

terre-verte (countable and uncountable, plural terres-vertes or terre-vertes)

1. An olive-green earth used as a pigment.

See also

• glauconite

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “terre-verte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)