CHARTREUSES Synonyms

• a shade of green tinged with yellow

• aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France

• of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur

• large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved

• thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind

• a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms

• of a yellowish brown color

• a caustic substance produced by heating limestone

• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

• a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

• any of various related trees bearing limes

• any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber

• the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees

• spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

• cover with lime so as to induce growth

• small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

• evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits

• hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

• one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

• a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation

• of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

• seed of a pea plant used for food

• the fruit or seed of a pea plant

• a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

• small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts

• nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel

• a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate

• a shade of green tinged with yellow

• a shade of green tinged with yellow