leek-green

English

Adjective

leek-green (comparative more leek-green, superlative most leek-green)

  1. Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek.
    • 1927, The Examiner, page 4, column 3:
      Oat crops are for the most part leek-green and promising well; some of the brown oats are whitening to harvest, and on some farms (outlying) are in stook.

Synonyms
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.