groen — meaning in English

English meaning

• callow adj Young and lacking experience of life.
• green adj Having the color of growing grass or leaves.
• lush adj Growing thickly and vigorously; richly green and full of life.
• verdant adj Colored green.
• vert noun In heraldry, the color green, traditionally shown in engravings as diagonal lines.

Senses

groen is used for these senses in English:

• Green Party The particular green party of a country or region.
• callow (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
• green (figurative) Inexperienced.
• green (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
• green The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
• green (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
• lush (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
• verdant Green in colour.

callow — full definition

1. adj Young and lacking experience of life.
2. adj (archaic) Without any hair; bald.
3. adj (of a brick) Not yet fired in a kiln.
4. adj Describes a young bird that has not grown its feathers yet, or, more widely, a young animal still without fur.

green — full definition

1. adj Having the color of growing grass or leaves.
2. adj Inexperienced or naive.
3. adj Concerned with protecting the environment.
4. noun The color itself, or an area of grass, especially on a golf course.
5. verb To make something more environmentally friendly.

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