BLUE-GREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue-green mean? 

• BLUE-GREEN (adjective)
  The adjective BLUE-GREEN has 1 sense:

1. of a bluish shade of green

  Familiarity information: BLUE-GREEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE-GREEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a bluish shade of green

Synonyms:

blue-green; bluish green; cyan; teal

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

Atmospheric methane absorbs red light but allows blue-green light to be scattered back into space, giving each planet a cyan hue.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

Blue samples helium; blue-green oxygen, and red nitrogen and hydrogen.

(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)

The primary objective of the NuSTAR observations was to study the supernova - the explosion of a star much more massive than our Sun - that appears as a bright blue-green spot at upper right.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)