vihreä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- callow adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
- green adj Having the colour of growing grass or leaves.
- raw adjective Not cooked.
- verdant adj Green in colour.
- vert noun In heraldry, the colour green, traditionally shown in engravings as diagonal lines.
- white adj Reflecting all wavelengths of visible light equally; having the colour of snow or milk.
Senses
vihreä is used for these senses in English:
- callow (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
- green (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- green Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- green (figurative) Inexperienced.
- raw New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
- verdant Fresh.
- vert (tincture) In blazon, of the colour green.
- vert (tincture) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
callow — full definition
- adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
- adj Having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
- adj Of a brick: unburnt.
- adj Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
green — full definition
- adj Having the colour of growing grass or leaves.
- adj Inexperienced or naive.
- adj Concerned with protecting the environment.
- noun The colour itself, or an area of grass, especially on a golf course.
- verb To make something more environmentally friendly.