What does leek-green mean?
Leek-green means Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek..
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.
Use leek-green when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Leek-green means Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek..
Common synonyms include porraceous, prasine, prasinous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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