(grēn) adjective
1. Having the spectrum color between blue and yellow.
2. In leaf; grass–covered; verdant: green hills.
3. Not arrived at perfect or mature form or condition; unripe.
4. Of or due to immature or unskilled judgment or lack of knowledge; inexperienced; also, gullible.
5. Not seasoned or made ready for use; new; fresh; unrefined; raw.
6. Pale–greenish; pale; sickly; wan.
7. Characterized by strength or youthful vigor; flourishing. See synonyms under FRESH.
—noun
1. The color of spring foliage; the color in the solar spectrum between the blue and the yellow.
2. A grassy level or piece of ground covered with herbage; a common; specifically, a golf putting green, or a whole golf course.
3. A green pigment or substance.
4. plural The leaves and stems of young plants, as dandelion and spinach, used as food: usually boiled.
5. plural Leaves or branches of trees; wreaths.
6. Something green used as an emblem.
—v.t. & v.i. To become or cause to become green. [OE grēne. Akin to GRASS, GROW.]
—green′·ly adverb
—green′ness noun

(grēn), Anna Katharine,
1846–1935, U.S. writer.
—Hetty Howland,
1835–1916, née Robinson, U.S. financier.
—John Richard,
1837–83, English historian.
—Julian,
born 1900, French novelist born in America.
—William,
1873–1952, U.S. labor leader, president of the American Federation of Labor 1924–52.