apple-green

apple-green (countable and uncountable, plural apple-greens)

1. A bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple.

   apple-green:  

   bright apple-green:  

   Synonym: apple

   • 1961, Ross Russell, “If You Can’t Get Five—”, in The Sound, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, part 2, page 181:

     New bills always seemed to have such a lovely pale green colour, apple-green.

• apple green

apple-green (comparative more apple-green, superlative most apple-green)

1. Of an apple-green (noun sense) colour.

• Appendix:Colors