leek-green

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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, Launceston, Tasmania, 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.
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