1764 Oct. 1113/2 The green-wav'd ocean with amazement roars.
c1826 Sir Patrick Spens xv, in F. J. Child (1885) II. iii. 22/2 I see the green-waved sea.
1916 C. S. Yost 150 Afield the grasses glint, and breeze doth seeming set aflow the current o' a green-waved stream.
1994 R. J. Arobateau 12 We carry our freedom, perpetually. Eagle fast! Over the green waved bays.