The perfume of the violet, Viola odorata, natural order Violaceæ, is due to a volatile oil of a green color and of such a penetrating odor as to cause headache; it acquires the agreeable odor of the violet only by strong dilution.
If, however, the oil is adulterated with oil of turpentine, the precipitate formed shows a handsome green or blue-green color, while the supernatant oil retains its original color or at the utmost acquires a very slightly darker one.
The copper salt will dissolve in pure oil of lemons with a green color, while in the presence of oil of turpentine a yellow turbid mixture is obtained, reddish-yellow cuprous oxide being separated.
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color.
A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color.
A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size.
Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
The stools are difficult, painful, and of a black or dark-green color, offensive odor, and accompanied with the discharge of flatus.
The berries are gathered before they are ripe, and spread on a terrace, exposed to the sun for about a week, during which time they lose their green color, and acquire that reddish brown tint which renders them marketable.
Two sacks full of the leaves yield scarcely three drachms of the oil, which is limpid, pellucid, and of a green color.
The crown rises four or five inches above the surface of the ground, and is of a green color; below the surface, the skin is reddish-yellow.
If this is neglected, they become not only injurious, but actually poisonous; and this is especially the fact when they are allowed to become of a green color, which they readily will do on exposure to the light.
The stems of this plant are more than three feet high, covered with wide leaves of a dark-green color.
The avocado pear, called by the Indians ahuacate, is the same shape as a large pear, with interior of a light-green color and of a buttery nature; its sweet flavor is delicious to every palate.
It was of an emerald-green color, and had on its back a row of little projections like small trees, symmetrically arranged.
Alumina gives a pure blue color, the oxide of zinc a bright green, magnesia a light red, and the oxide of tin a bluish-green color; but the latter is only distinctly visible after cooling.
If the flame of reduction is directed upon the oxide of tellurium placed upon charcoal, a green color is imparted to it.
The white sublimate which surrounds the fused metal, being subjected to the flame of oxidation, disappears from the charcoal with a bluish-green color.
This salt colors the flame of a bluish-green color, but when the bromine is driven off, then we have the green of the oxide of copper.
The white pine is easily distinguished by its leaves being in fives, by its very long cones, composed of loosely-arranged scales, and when young by the smoothness and delicate light-green color of the bark.
The bark of young trees of the white-pine species is very smooth and of a reddish, bottle-green color.
Its frond-like branches are closely covered with very small sharp-pointed leaves of a yellow-green color, smooth and shining, and they remain on the tree five or six years.
The grayish-green color of the moss often exactly matches the hue of the tree's bark.
Shipbuilders insisted that planks be all heartwood, because when sapwood was exposed to rain and sun, it changed to a green color, due to the presence of fungus.
The shining, blue-green color of the leaves is a conspicuous characteristic of noble fir as it appears in the forest.
Douglas fir needles are from three-quarters to one and a quarter inches long, and of a dark, yellow-green color.
The water is a blue-green color, so clear that the stones on the bottom and the old water-logged trunks of trees, long since wrested from the shores by storms and avalanches, may be discerned even in several fathoms of water.
The water is cold, of a green color, and so pellucid that the rough rocky bottom may be seen at great depths.
I emphasize the word "green," because it so happens that when a plant has no chlorophyl (as green color is named in the plant world) its feeding is of diverse kind to that which a green plant exhibits.
Evidences of inflammation are usually found in the stomach and intestines, the mucous membrane being often ulcerated and of a blue-green color.
The sufferers complained that everything seemed of a green color.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "green color" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
