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Example sentences for "greenish colour"

  • It is of a greyish or greenish colour, with a paler line on the back, a light brown line on each side of this, black spots between these lines, and black spiracles.

  • The caterpillar is smooth and velvety, of a dull brown or greenish colour, with darker dorsal and side stripes.

  • It is of a greenish colour, with yellowish patches, but turns darker as the time approaches for the emerging of the perfect insect.

  • The eggs are laid in July, and are from three to five in number, and of a greyish white or greenish colour, covered with light reddish-brown spots, which are most thickly distributed over the broad end.

  • All the leaves contained unicellular and other Algae, still of a greenish colour, which had evidently lived as intruders, in the same manner as occurs, according to Cohn, within the leaves of this plant in Germany.

  • When in fusion, it communicates a greenish colour to the flame of the coals.

  • You will find the Silver at the bottom of the lower crucible, covered with a mass of Alkaline scoria of a greenish colour.

  • Extract of hemlock has a greenish colour, and a strong odour of the fresh-bruised plant.

  • The former are chiefly confined to persons of fair complexion, whilst the latter attack persons of all complexions indifferently, and sometimes assume a lively yellow or greenish colour.

  • A ferric salt added to a solution of this acid imparts a greenish colour to it.

  • From St. Louis upward to the Missouri, the water of the Mississippi, for a part of the year, is observed to be clear and of a greenish colour on the Illinois side, while it is turbid and yellow along the western bank.

  • Its mouth now exhibited a great extent of naked sand-bars, the water, which was transparent and of a greenish colour, flowing almost unseen through a number of small channels.

  • The latter state of the lining of the lid produces disease of the cornea, opacity of a greenish colour, or an ulcer with intolerance of light, and other symptoms of disorganisation proceeding in that tissue.

  • The iris changes its appearance, becomes of a dusky hue, either in part or throughout, and red vessels are sometimes distinctly seen in it; from grey or blue it changes to a greenish colour, and when formerly black or brown it becomes reddish.

  • The ferrous or proto salts have generally a greenish colour, but yield nearly colourless solutions, except when concentrated.

  • Mr Smith endorses the observations of previous observers who had noticed that the urine of persons under the influence of santonin is tinged of a saffron yellow or greenish colour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about her; are obliged; been doing; cattle ranch; city clerk; eighty thousand; external nature; good harvest; grant them; greenish blue; greenish color; greenish colour; greenish grey; greenish white; greenish yellow; independence from; land here; library work; little lighter; little pause; mortal mind; nursery governess; protective resemblance; southwest monsoon; volcanic island; west extremity