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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
     1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
        spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
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     2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
        verdant herbage; as, the village green.
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              O'er the smooth enameled green.       --Milton.
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     3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
        wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
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              In that soft season when descending showers
              Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                    --Pope.
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     4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
        etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
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     5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
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     Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid
        derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald
        green; -- called also Helvetia green.
  
     Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
  
     Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling
        emerald green in composition.
  
     Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
  
     Chrome green. See under Chrome.
  
     Emerald green. (Chem.)
        (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a
            metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for
            dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a
            brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green,
            acid green, malachite green, Victoria green,
            solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double
            chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.
        (b) See Paris green (below).
  
     Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the
        French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially
        of a basic hydrate of chromium.
  
     Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff,
        obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow
        luster; -- called also light-green.
  
     Mineral green. See under Mineral.
  
     Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
  
     Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting
        of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and
        arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a
        pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but
        particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato
        bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial
        green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis
        green.
  
     Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting
        essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called
        also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments
        called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green,
        nereid green, or emerald green.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Parrot \Par"rot\ (p[a^]r"r[u^]t), n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim.
     of Pierre Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow.
     Cf. Paroquet, Petrel, Petrify.]
     1. (Zo["o]l.) In a general sense, any bird of the order
        Psittaci.
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     2. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis,
        Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacid[ae],
        as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories.
        They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked
        space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako ({Psittacus
        erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of
        Amazon, or green, parrots ({Chrysotis) of America, are
        examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to
        imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
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     Carolina parrot (Zo["o]l.), the Carolina parrakeet. See
        Parrakeet.
  
     Night parrot, or Owl parrot. (Zo["o]l.) See Kakapo.
  
     Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling
        and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.]
        
  
     Parrot green. (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green,
        n.
  
     Parrot weed (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant ({Bocconia
        frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer
        parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid
        leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.
  
     Parrot wrasse, Parrot fish (Zo["o]l.), any fish of the
        Scarus.+One+species+({Scarus+Cretensis" rel="nofollow">genus Scarus. One species ({Scarus Cretensis), found in
        the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly
        prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Parrot \Par"rot\, n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim. of Pierre
     Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow. Cf.
     Paroquet, Petrel, Petrify.]
     1. (Zo["o]l.) In a general sense, any bird of the order
        Psittaci.
  
     2. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis,
        Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacid[ae],
        as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories.
        They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked
        space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako ({P.
        erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of
        Amazon, or green, parrots ({Chrysotis) of America, are
        examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to
        imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
  
     Carolina parrot (Zo["o]l.), the Carolina parrakeet. See
        Parrakeet.
  
     Night parrot, or Owl parrot. (Zo["o]l.) See Kakapo.
  
     Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling
        and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.]
        
  
     Parrot green. (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green,
        n.
  
     Parrot weed (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant ({Bocconia
        frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer
        parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid
        leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.
  
     Parrot wrasse, Parrot fish (Zo["o]l.), any fish of the
        Scarus.+One+species+({S.+Cretensis" rel="nofollow">genus Scarus. One species ({S. Cretensis), found in the
        Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly
        prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Green \Green\ (gren), n.
     1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
        spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
  
     2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
        verdant herbage; as, the village green.
  
              O'er the smooth enameled green.       --Milton.
  
     3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
        wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
  
              In that soft season when descending showers Call
              forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                    --Pope.
  
     4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
        etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
  
     5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
  
     Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid
        derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald
        green; -- called also Helvetia green.
  
     Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
  
     Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling
        emerald green in composition.
  
     Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
  
     Chrome green. See under Chrome.
  
     Emerald green. (Chem.)
        (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a
            metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for
            dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a
            brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green,
            acid green, malachite green, Victoria green,
            solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double
            chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.
        (b) See Paris green (below).
  
     Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the
        French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially
        of a basic hydrate of chromium.
  
     Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff,
        obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow
        luster; -- called also light-green.
  
     Mineral green. See under Mineral.
  
     Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
  
     Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting
        of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and
        arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a
        pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but
        particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato
        bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial
        green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis
        green.
  
     Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting
        essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called
        also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments
        called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green,
        nereid green, or emerald green.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  parrot green /pˈaɹət ɡɹˈiːn/
  Mineralgrün , Pariser Grün, Schweinfurter Grün
   see: green, May green, This/that is the same thing., It comes to/boils down to the same thing.
  

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