My new favorite word:
viridescent: Green or slightly green.
I love the sound of it!
Some related words: virid
adj.
Bright green with or as if with vegetation; verdant.
and viridian
n.
A durable bluish-green pigment. (all definitions from Atomica)
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It's not easy being green.
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Ooh, Rapunzel--not a good thread to come upon when one's stomach is upset!
Wasn't there a Star Trek episode where Viridian 3 was a planet?
Streptococcus viridans produces green colouration on blood agar.
Help me Bill. The old name for P. aeruginosa was...
and viridian
n.
A durable bluish-green pigment.
One of the major banks (I refuse to advertise who) here had a home loan called "Viridian" ... I'm still trying to figure out why. (Unless it's to make me "green" with envy that I can't get a home loan myself?) 
Re: from Jackie----not a good thread to come upon when one's stomach is upset
curious the things we associate with green--
envy-- the green eyed monster,
and being sick and being naive, or worse-- a real green horn
but say emerald
and now we have emeraldeyed beauties,
or the emeraldisle, and the emerald city..
well anything defined as emerald rather than green is prettier!
yellow has the same problem.. yellow bellied, bad, but a hero is often the golden man of the hour..
blue can be many things.. blue prose, or blue mood, or blue skies. blule isn't just the blues
red, while it often shares ground with crimsom, is fine on its own, my love is like a red, red rose.
red can be red with rage, or red blooded hero, or red with embarassment, or volupuous with full red lips!
do you agree, its hard to find possitive associations for green? or am i just looking at the world through rose colored glasses, and only seeing what i want to see?
its hard to find possitive associations for green?
I know what you mean in the long tradition Helen - but (this side of the pond, certainly) green has become synonymous in recent years with environmental sustainability, which has redressed the balance a bit!
>>>its hard to find possitive associations for green?Heyyyy, my eyes are green and my hubby things they are positivly beautiful
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Here in Canada when a product is said to be
green it means it is organic / healthy - oh and generally more expensive.
Let's see...anything good that is green?
Ummmmmmm....well....M O N E Y comes to mind!
Not here Angel dear. In Canada money is multi-coloured and often refered to as Monopoly money by our U.S. brethren.
In Canada money is multi-coloured
Likewise here in Oz, although we do have one GREEN note, and I kinda like them. They're worth $100 - that's the biggest denomination we've got. Course, it's only worth about half that to you USns and a third to the Brits. [rolleyes-e] That makes me green with envy. 
Well, I admit we did use to have a green one-dollar bill but that was replaced by the golden loony coin years ago.
a green one-dollar bill but that was replaced by the golden loony coin years ago.
Speaking of money, not that I want to divert the thread so much, but why is it that the rest of the world is content with using a on-dollar (or equivalent) coin, but people in the US refuse to and simply hoard them as collectors items? It's the same with the metric system, 24-hour clocks and evolution. What is it with the US mindset that makes us at once so technologically advanced and stubbornly stuck in our ways?
I, for one, loved using the 1- and 2-pound coins while visiting England. It's just seems so convienient, yet I don't think I've seen more than one one-dollar coin in the last year.
Speaking from a retailer's perspective, Jazzo, the coins are a pain in the arse. They are hard to accomodate in the cash drawer, practically no one wants to receive them as change, and the armored car cash pick-up folk refuse to pick up coins. There, my $1.98 cents worth. Want it all in coins?
Max-- i think one reason cell phone were so slow to take off in US, was we had a huge infrastructure of land lines. and a 5 day wait for a new line was a long wait! In NYC, our crappy telephone company could often get 48 service installing a new line.
We had lots of phones, and lots of public phones, and beepers, and cell phones were just another layer of technology. even very remote places (biker mom has stopped in lately, and she live in a very remote part of country) had access (not always assets to pay for , but plenty of access to) phone lines.
As for $1 coins, i use them sometime, but i have about $5 in singles now, and they are weightless. 5 golden dollars weigh more!
and as for metric, it is used all the time, but no one thinking has changed. many cars are foriegn manufacture, and are metricly tooled, soda and liquor is sold in metric sizes (i buy 2 liter bottle of soda, not 64 oz.) offically we still don't use the metric system, but its creaping in everywhere!
There, my $1.98 cents worth. Want it all in coins?
And only two of them pennies.
Oh for the days of paper dollars and two dollars. You could have a whole wad of them in your purse and you'd be none the worse for wear.
Now, if you have five loonies and five twonies you have nearly half-a-pound to cart around. Add the nickles, dimes, quarters and pennies and the weight is way too much.
Doesn't sound like much. Stick a pound of butter in your pant pockets and walk around with it all day, then get back to me.
The only thing that makes the coins worthwhile is that they can last forever - a paper bill - not so much.
The five-dollar coin is just around the corner but the weight consideration is causing some public outcry.
Stick a pound of butter in your pant pockets and walk around with it all day, then get back to me
ooh, Bel, I love it when you talk dirty =)
so do you like Bertolucci?
Bel, you're feeling greenish? i'd of thought you'd be beet red!
but mind you now, butter has me thinking of Paris..
best stop now...
and who is this Greenish guy, anywise? I'm envious!
greenish
I always liked the descriptive verdant.
The Only WO'N!
do you agree, its hard to find possitive associations for green?
I have some recollection of an old Irish (I think) tradition that unchristened babies must never wear anything green as it is the colour of the fairies. Babies wearing it may be substituted with changelings.
I know, it's not really a positive association - unless you dislike your parents so much you'd rather be a changeling!
While here, the Queen of the South Seas is supposed to be very partial to young men wearing green (aren't we all?), who are likely to be swept away to her underwater abode if they venture into the waves in her colour.
Bingley
the Queen of the South Seas is supposed to be very partial to young men wearing green Well, Bingley, that lets you out, then!
Never mind, Dearest,
I still want you...
(aren't we all?)
I prefer Faldage in his red dress.
its hard to find positive associations for green?
I admit to being colour blind - but in my book green means ....... GO ....... and that's pretty positive.
dxb
its hard to find possitive associations for green?
Helen, I'm surprised to hear you ask this question, given where you work. Corporations who want to come across as having a positive environmental record, without necessarily doing anything to benefit or refrain from harming the environment, engage in greenwashing - clearly green's got a positive association in this case.
And I refuse to believe that belM's comment about the butter wasn't a set-up - it was just too good to be true. And messy
There are lots of wonderful associations with green, including the environmentally sound, the new life of spring, the color of US dollars, and
my beloved Spartans.
GO GREEN!http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=9924
In terms of green meaning go - when I was at college, someone organised a Traffic Light Party, where you had to dress in the colour appropriate to your thoughts about being picked up that night...
And harking back a few posts, a bloke at my school once insisted that there was no alliteration in the poem, "The Red, Red, Rose."
Kim Stanley Robinson coined the word "veriditas" which he used in his RGB Mars series as a condition of "earth-like", i.e. green as opposed to red, nature applied to Mars. It's an interesting coining, because while it has obvious links to words such as "viridity" and "verdant", it could also be a concatenation of the Latin ver, veris (springtime, youth) and dido, didere (to distribute), giving something which means roughly the same in the context of the novel, spreading new life.
I'd like to think he'd been that clever!
Has nobody mentioned "Vermont" yet --as in, "Green mountain"?
Has nobody mentioned "Vermont" yet --as in, "Green mountain"?
And it's official nickname is the "Green Mountain State." I'm guess that Vermont is the only state who's nickname is just a translation of the real name.
And those who thing opera is too high-fallutin' might note the "Guiseppe Verdi is none other than the simple and unpretentious Joe Green.
In a mountain greenery,
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together.
While you love your lover, let
Blue skies be your cover-let,
When it rains we'll laugh at the weather.
And if you're good,
I'll search for wood,
So you can cook... while I stand look-in'
Beans could get no keener re-
ception
in a beanery
Bless our mountain greenery home!
a mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together
How we love sequestering
Where no pests are pestering
No dear mama holds us together
Mosquitoes here,
Won't bite you dear,
I'll let them sting, me on the finger!
We could find no cleaner re-
treat from life's machinery
Than our mountain greenery home.
(Rogers and Hart)
Yup. Probably right. Definitely the namesakes are an endangered species in Virginia.
REminds me of a cartoon from Playboy many years ago. Two guys sitting at a table cleaning the seeds out of their stash. One looked over and said, "Hey, man, your grass is greener than mine."
From Frost:
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Also, The Greening of America
Remember that one?
More Frost can't find the one I'm looking for...
Mowing
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound--
And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,
Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers
(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
Bingo! Found it!
Love and a Question
A STRANGER came to the door at eve,
And he spoke the bridegroom fair.
He bore a green-white stick in his hand,
And, for all burden, care.
He asked with the eyes more than the lips 5
For a shelter for the night,
And he turned and looked at the road afar
Without a window light.
The bridegroom came forth into the porch
With, ‘Let us look at the sky, 10
And question what of the night to be,
Stranger, you and I.’
The woodbine leaves littered the yard,
The woodbine berries were blue,
Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind; 15
’Stranger, I wish I knew.’
Within, the bride in the dusk alone
Bent over the open fire,
Her face rose-red with the glowing coal
And the thought of the heart’s desire. 20
The bridegroom looked at the weary road,
Yet saw but her within,
And wished her heart in a case of gold
And pinned with a silver pin.
The bridegroom thought it little to give 25
A dole of bread, a purse,
A heartfelt prayer for the poor of God,
Or for the rich a curse;
But whether or not a man was asked
To mar the love of two 30
By harboring woe in the bridal house,
The bridegroom wished he knew.
