lime green

English

the varying greens of limes provided the inspiration for the notionally standardized color value

limes

Alternative forms

• lime-green

Adjective

lime green (comparative more lime green, superlative most lime green)

1. Having any of several bright, light-green colours, like those of a lime.

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Translations

having a bright, light-green colour

• Belarusian: сала́тавы (salátavy)
• Czech: limetkově zelená
• Finnish: limetinvihreä (fi)
• French: vert citron
• German: lindgrün (de)
• Greek: λαχανής (lachanís)
• Kyrgyz: саргыч жашыл (sargıc jaşıl)
• Polish: limonkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: verde-lima
• Russian: жё̀лто-зелё́ный (žòlto-zeljónyj), сала́товый (ru) (salátovyj)
• Slovene: limeta, svetlozelena
• Ukrainian: сала́товий (salátovyj)

Noun

lime green (countable and uncountable, plural lime greens)

2. Any of several bright, light-green colours, like those of a lime.

   Synonym: lime

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4. A particular one of these colors that has been standardized under this name.

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See also

Colors/Colours in English (layout · text)
red	orange	yellow	green	blue (incl.      indigo;              cyan, teal, turquoise)	purple / violet
pink (including          magenta)	brown		white	gray/grey	black