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Since I write in all sorts of light, indoors and out, I find the greenish paper comfortable.
The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
The intact cysts were filled with clear to straw-colored fluid or thick mucoid to opaque greenish yellow fluid.
The walls in the hallway, which were covered with these greenish blue tiles, seemed to be closing in as I walked through them.
Unusually I have light greenish eyes and I'm very pale despite a lot of sunlight.
Infrequently the treatment may produce a greenish hue on a moist wound, but this also may not reflect infection.
Discovered in 1980, the little greenish bird has only been sighted on two mountaintops along a treacherous ridge outside Rio de Janeiro.
This bizarrely delicious lunchtime dish consisted of steamed cockles and fat udon noodles, all swimming in a greenish chili-cilantro broth.
Also known as custard apples, white sapotes have a superthin skin, greenish yellow to yellow.
Their frilled petals are the palest lavender-pink, almost white, and they have fine pink lines which lead into the greenish yellow depths.
The greenish yellow marsh meadow locust prefers to sing on hot, quiet forenoons from moist ditches and grassy banks.
It started to snow and through the snow I saw a greenish forelock to the armless girl's hair.
In fact some of the scariest bits of this film are when we see these greenish critters flittering into the shadows.
He reached into his bag and pulled out three cups and a flask of some greenish blue liquid.
Barth put his head in his hands and stared down at the greenish liquid in his flask.
Il is composed of gray, greenish shales interbedded with silty mudstones and siltstones.
This member grades upwards into greenish mudstones and greenish-yellow, fine-grained sandstones of the overlying Cuarcitas Azules Member.
If you must shoot with it, you can use a light pink FLD filter with daylight films to remove some of the greenish cast.
However, some genepy has a greenish tint depending on the amount of chlorophyll in the plants.
A lifeguard dove into the greenish chlorine filled water and lifted Hope out of the pool.
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Copper reacts with oxygen and carbon dioxide to form a greenish patina of copper carbonate.
Korean craftspeople are also known for their celadon ceramics, a term that refers to a type of greenish glaze that originated in China.
She always found it strange he has blue eyes and all the other men in his family have greenish hazel eyes.
The leaves of ssp. beneolens are greenish, mostly linear to very-narrowly oblanceolate, and have a tendency to be ascending.
The stones on the bottom of the brook were flat and greenish in the wan afternoon light.
The overall tone is a muted greenish grey, picked out by the stone statue of the Madonna and the abundant foliage.
It was not the warm, gentle radiance of a flame, but an eerie, greenish glow whose essence was cold and lifeless.
These strokes are variations on translucent greenish blue, articulated at various points by splashes of orange, magenta and alizarin.
They had brown and greenish substance caked on it which was not very appealing to Vaius.
She didn't realize that he was noticing the greenish bruises that still covered her cheeks.
Brilliant coral-red leaves fade to greenish pink in summer and develop only a little color in fall.
This lesion was hemorrhagic and surrounded by edematous tissue with greenish discoloration.
Lighter shades of bricks, including for instance gray and ivory, have been shown to produce more of a greenish vitrescent marking.
These are fish of variable coloration, with backs that may be brownish, bluish, or greenish.
In its native habitat, the Canary Islands, the bird is a nondescript greenish songster with a melodious warble.
The blooms of this variety are dusty pink on the back of the petals and greenish on the inside with pale, dull yellow stamens.
I poked him, and he groaned, rolling over to expose a greenish countenance.
The skin tones are decidedly greenish, which is not particularly flattering.
A young woman, one of the waitresses, brought out a spoon and a bowl filled with a smoky, greenish liquid and placed them in front of Don.
The island is known for ravishing beaches with pink sand and greenish water, and for uniquely painted homes and cottages.
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In time, she says, the exterior will weather to a greenish patina and blend into the surrounding foliage.
In the center of the field there glowed a luminous fairy circle, where a ring of small greenish gnomelike creatures danced and sang squeakily.
The man-beast tried to bit Wolfus, but his greenish dragon scale mail just wouldn't let its fang through.
Once grass starts sprouting and leaves begin to unfurl on trees, the vegetation gives the world a greenish cast on an overcast day.
A breastfed baby's stools should be frequent, greenish, inoffensively fragrant, loose, and unformed.
The mixture is greenish white in color and when sweetened to taste is relished by nearly every one.
Glauconite is a greenish earth of hydrated iron potassium silicate, known as green earth or terre verte.
When I looked to the man, I could see he was dressed in these brown breeches and a greenish tunic.
I was a Swamp Thing, lolling around in swimming togs, my skin smeared with chalky white cream and greenish mud.
In sections of caryopses, greenish yellow fluorescence was observed in the cell walls of the chalaza and the outer layers of the nucellar projection.
Conglomerate clasts are principally volcanic rocks and greenish gray chert, with subordinate arkose, graywacke, siltstone, red chert, quartzite, white quartz, and limestone.
They lodged in the lungs of victims and began to grow into greenish moss.
The love vine is orange in color and has small greenish berries.
In some parts, the sun's rays struggle to pierce the tree canopies, casting the whole world in a greenish gloom.
Hunched figures squatted against the walls in the greenish gloom, working silently, bent over filigree necklaces crafted from melted down meticais, the Mozambican currency.
The back is greenish and the sides silvery, shot with blue and pink.
She poured a measure of greenish, foul-smelling liquid from a tightly stoppered jar into the bowl and added a sprinkling of sweet scented dried herbs in as well.
As the large, loose clusters of tiny greenish flower blossoms fade, the flower stalks get longer and by midsummer are covered with fuzzy purple or pink hairs.
A greenish paste had been smeared over their faces and all visible skin.
On a bright yellow ground, round or oval passages of gritty, greenish relief become squirting slices of citrus fruit, their outlines sketched in charcoal.
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The canvas in which the woman, wearing a pink dress and greenish fichu, is set against flowered wallpaper was made explicitly as a gift for Gauguin.
The greenish fluorescence seen under the light is due to an ectothrix infection of hairs, in which fungal spores form a sheath on the outside of the hair.
Canada thistle is identified by shallow lobed leaves with short spines on the margins and a greenish color on both sides, often lighter on the lower side.
Male flowers are pedicellate, with five greenish or whitish tepals and five stamens with flaccid filaments opposite the tepals.
Tiny, greenish or pinkish, lanternlike flowers hide under branch tips in early to midspring.
Immature southern green shield bugs are greenish black withmany white or red circular markings on their upper surface.
They have wide greenish floral tubes with funnel shaped bright yellow coronas.
The transmitted light appears greenish blue, because gold strongly reflects yellow and red.
Decaying plant matter, for instance, may be responsible for a yellow or brown color, while algae may cause greenish water.
At its heart is a crystalline chamber made of greenish cullet glass, sourced from factory waste from kilns in the glass-making industry.
A lighter palette of scraped greenish grays provides the backdrop for a deconstructed image of a flower in a vase.
Endites and coxae greenish on males and on the females between dark and light blue.
This species has small tan to yellowish apothecia with greenish yellow thalline margins.
It was a kind of greenish liquid, and it was basically undrinkable.
The UE consists of greenish marlaceous clays with silicon sandstone inter-layers, foraminifers, shales of ostracordes.
The roseslug is a slug-like, greenish white, repulsive-looking larva of certain sawflies about five-eighths of an inch long.
Then there's the Chinese ringneck, which is smaller, lighter in colour, with a vivid, white neck ring and a noticeably blue or greenish rump.
The greenish area in the foreground was rather a masonry abreuvoir, or giant manger, for animals to drink from.
Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.
She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.
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They are not bright or flashy in appearance, and their color can vary from greenish to whitish, brown, purple, black, or hyaline.
Most butterwort flowers are blue, violet or white, often suffused with a yellow, greenish or reddish tint.
He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.
With acid refractory lined cupolas a greenish colored slag means the fluxing is proper and adequate.
The Tang pieces are not porcelain however, but rather earthenwares with greenish white slip, using cobalt blue pigments.
This term is specifically applied to shallow marine sediment, that contains noticeable quantities of rounded greenish grains.
The eggs are white, bluish white, or greenish white, spotted with brown or grey.
Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.
In other places more greenish volcanic extrusions are evident as harder veins within the sandstone bluffs.
The back tends to be a greenish to sandy brown, and shows extensive mottling, especially towards the lighter sides and white belly.
Its name comes from the greenish color of the turtles' fat, which is only found in a layer between their inner organs and their shell.
When disturbed, all individuals move rapidly back and forth, presenting a confusing picture of jumping greenish, leggish dots.
Greensand or green sand is a sand or sandstone which has a greenish color.
Vinylester resin tends to have a purplish to bluish to greenish tint.
The Upper Eocene consists of greenish marlaceous clays with silicon sandstone inter-layers, foraminifers, shales of ostracordes and the teeth of fish.
Within the upper unit are the greenish bentonitic clays of the Kannaviou complex, patchily distributed around the Mamonia arc, which are crucial to this study.
Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.
Two types of amphibole are present, an earlier generation of magnesio-hornblende with greenish brown-brown-tan pleochroism and later pale green-green actinolitic hornblende.
The colouring is variable and tends to match the colour of the animal's surroundings, being some shade of brown or grey with occasionally a greenish tinge.
Bardsey scored with a Marsh Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Ortolan Bunting, Nightingale, Ring Ouzel and Red-throated Pipit.
Examples from Classical Literature
If Romberg's phosphorus, which is fused CaCl2, is rubbed on the sleeve, it glows with a greenish light.
The color of this pretty acaleph varies from a greenish hue to green, with a faint tinge of red, or to a reddish brown.
Usually of a white or light greenish color and vitreous lustre, in acicular crystallizations.
The nuclei are greenish, the red blood corpuscles orange, the acidophil granulation copper red, the neutrophil violet.
It is a greenish substance which, like aluminium hydroxide, dissolves in alkalis, forming soluble salts.
It was a gasoline lamp that burned with a gas mantle, swinging from the ceiling, flooding the little shop with a greenish light.
Around her neck was the Necklace she wore in all the ages, showing greenish in a dusk of gentian blue.
On the evening in question he was dressed in a coat and trousers of greenish corduroy.
The flowers of the vanilla are of a greenish yellow, touched here and there with white.
Its thorax is greyish, the hemelytra of a greenish grey, the membranous wings white.
The eggs are white or greenish white, specked with reddish brown and umber.
Taggi raised an egg-patterned snout from a hollow and licked at the stippling of greenish yolk matting his fur.
The gills are crowded, and when bruised, or in age, the indigo blue color changes somewhat to greenish.
Skin, smooth, of an uniform pale yellow or straw color, and thinly strewed with greenish dots.
The same holds with yellows and blues, as orange cadmium is a red yellow, and strontian yellow is a greenish yellow.
The suborbital spot is pale greenish tan, and the iris is deep reddish brown.
This species has greenish upper parts, white lower parts and superciliary line, and gray crown and nape.
Its color is greenish blue in potash-lime glass, bluish green in soda-lime glass, and yellowish green in lead glass.
And one entered, as into the liquid crystal of a source, a greenish limpidity, a sheet of silver reposing beneath reflected reeds.
The hair on the forehead of this is black, whereas that of the macaque is greenish.
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A small-growing tree, with trifoliolate, yellowish-green leaves placed on long footstalks, and inconspicuous greenish flowers.
A person's face looks ghastly by the greenish light of a mercury-vapor lamp.
A red postage stamp looks greenish gray in the green light of a mercury-vapor lamp.
Flowers greenish, 5-parted, solitary or in umbellate clusters in the axils.
Most of the sapphires found in the river gravels near Helena, Mont., are greenish blue or of other colors, and not of fine blue.
It is only the unoxidized pale greenish stuff that can act as the dye, the dark brown itself has no affinity for the wool.
When the pigment is wanting or is very scant, the fundamental blue or greenish colour of the uvea is apparent.
She had the pale greenish Venusian skin, and she was too short and rather thick.
Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle.
Weeks after the welts on my back and shoulders turned dark along the line of the whip, and greenish at the edges.
O thirsty eyes that linger magnet-bound On the nest's orphanhood of greenish black!
The ferrous or proto salts have generally a greenish colour, but yield nearly colourless908 solutions, except when concentrated.
A dirty brownish or greenish precipitate will fall, consisting of a mixture of the oxide of iron and Prussian blue.
These changes begin in the centre of the clots, which often contain true pus or a greenish or puriform fluid.
The augite is usually brown, but greenish, violet and colourless varieties may occur.
Its greenish eggs are laid on bedstraw, and in July and August the caterpillars may be found on the same kind of plant.
It may assume a greenish hue after standing, owing to oxidation of bilirubin into biliverdin.
This precipitate is of a greenish blue colour, and requires a much greater quantity of the black flux to reduce it.
It is much like the bloodworm in appearance and structure, but its body is greenish instead of red.
Occasionally, when hens eat unusual quantities of green food, the yolk show a greenish brown tint, and appear dark to the candler.
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After leaving Abdal's family, and just as our party were going on board the dahabeah, Nabul picked up an odd greenish pebble.
All the upper part of the mountain is composed of a pumiceous tufa, rich in sanidine and of a characteristic greenish colour.
Greenstone or diorite is usually a dull greenish rock, sometimes gray, however, speckled with green.
They did not scintillate, but rather glistened with a steady greenish lustre.
He raised the cover and saw a kind of greenish paste, something like preserved angelica, but which was perfectly unknown to him.
It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.
Before him, Karl Yundt remained standing, one wing of his faded greenish havelock thrown back cavalierly over his shoulder.
Copper, you see, is prone to attack by verdigris, a greenish deposit which is poisonous.
About the cylinder were three bands of greenish, glistening metal.
In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.
The operculum is a solid, round, shelly one, with a greenish centre.
The earth in question, is a silicate of magnesia, greenish in colour.
Once upon a time there was a little, greenish, blackish worm.
It was a pallidly greenish creature with a small head and enormous eyes.
Once, as it moved, I thought I saw the glint of two terrible, greenish eyes.
They lay, generally, about ten eggs of a buffy or greenish buff color.
If underdone, and left greenish or whitish, they have a raw bitter taste.
The leader of the greenish men paused in mid-leap, clawing at his stomach.
Below, greenish buff paler and yellower on abdomen and crissum.
Medium size, flesh greenish white, rather juicy, and subacid.
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In a first, scientists have created ten transgenic piglets that glow a greenish tint under black light.
There is one piece of old greenish pipe amber, and a cut topaz from Europe.
Some females with entire body lightish brown to grey with some yellowish and greenish parts, others more bluish grey to grey.
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
Overhead the stars were mustering, and in the west the sky was still a pale, bright, almost greenish blue.
Mozambique's coffee is greenish in color, of medium size, and mellow.
He seemed to have a greenish tint like a corpse putrefying in a pond.
The greenish margin and purplish center will mark the plant.
In one corner lay a huge and shapeless woman clad in greenish gauzes, and decked, brow, nose, ear, neck, wrist, arm, waist, and ankle with heavy native jewellery.
With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow.
In both l'Edouard Manet's The Absinthe Drinker and Edgar Degas's L'Absinthe the pale greenish glass adds a sick glow to the murkily degraded metropolitan modernity.
A greenish pallor spread over the count's cheeks, and his eyes became bloodshot at these terrible imputations, which were listened to by the assembly with ominous silence.
Greenish in color and situated in the water jar of Aquarius.
