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зелёный — meaning in English

zelyonyy

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English meaning

  • buck noun An adult male deer or similar animal.
  • environmentalist noun A person who actively works to protect the natural environment.
  • fledgling noun A young bird that has just grown the feathers needed to fly.
  • green adj Having the colour of growing grass or leaves.
  • greenhorn noun A person who is new to a job, activity, or situation and lacks experience.
  • raw adjective Not cooked.
  • rookie noun Someone new to a job, sport, or team; a first-year professional or a novice.
  • unripe adj Developing too early; premature.
  • verdant adj Green in colour.
  • vert noun In heraldry, the colour green, traditionally shown in engravings as diagonal lines.

Senses

зелёный is used for these senses in English:

  • buck (US, Australia, NZ, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  • environmentalist One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.
  • fledgling Untried or inexperienced.
  • green (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
  • green Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  • green (figurative) Inexperienced.
  • 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.

buck — full definition

  1. noun An adult male deer or similar animal.
  2. noun Informal, especially American, word for a dollar.
  3. verb Of a horse, to jump with an arched back and kick out the hind legs, often to throw off a rider.
  4. verb To resist or oppose something strongly, especially a trend or authority.

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