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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 91 Such of them as are yellowe, and of a golden colour, they commonly call Oranges: such as are of a greenishe pale yellowe, they call Cytrols, or Cytruls.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 94 Greenish yellow, or as we terme it, a goose turde greene.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 277 'Twas transparant of a greenish yellow.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 223 The filings exposed to the air, changed colour, and became a greenish blew.

1738 J. Hoofnail New Pract. Improvem. Exper. Colours 42 The Powder will be of a Greenish Yellow Colour.

1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. II. 609 Bloss[oms] greenish white.

1803 R. Chenevix in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 296 The supernatant liquor of the precipitate..is sometimes of a fine greenish-blue.

1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics x. 141 The greenish-grey tints of the mosses.

1900 Absent-minded War 168 There is a colour known to Indian sportsmen as shikarri mixture, a sort of greenish-grey, which is practically invisible in the jungle or when working among trees.

1975 U. K. LeGuin Wind's Twelve Quarters 157 Short, dry, greenish-pink bryoform grasses stretched away in every direction.

2005 A. St. John Clapton's Guitar xi. 100 The color of a piece of Brazilian rosewood can range from a golden pumpkin to a greenish gray to a striking brick-red.