Green (disambiguation)
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Green primarily refers to the colour green. It is also used, as a single term, to refer to many different people, places and things, some of which are listed below.
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[edit] Politics and History
- Green politics — a type of political or social movement.
- Green party — a type of political party.
- The Green Army — a military formation during the Russian civil war.
- The Environmental movement, Ecology movement, and Environmentalism.
- The California Green Archives a collection of green political documents.
- Irish Nationalism
[edit] Places
- Green, Oregon
- The Green Drawing Room, a room in Buckingham Palace.
- Green Park, a park next to Buckingham Palace in London, UK.
- The Green Library at Stanford University.
- Putting green — an area of well-manicured grass surrounding each hole on a golf course.
- Village green — an area of grassy common land forming part of a town or village, as in the New Haven Green.
- Green room — a place off a stage or studio where performers wait until it is their turn to go on stage.
- Green crater on the Moon.
[edit] People
- For a list of people with the name Green, see Green (name), for those named Greene, see Greene.
[edit] Music
- Green Day is an American punk rock band.
- Green is a 1988 music album by R.E.M..
- Green is the name of a Chicago powerpop band active since the mid-1980s.
- Green, a B'z album
[edit] Fictional characters
- The Green Lantern is a DC Comics superhero.
- The Jolly Green Giant is a symbol of the Green Giant food company of the United States.
- Green — a character in the videogame Gunstar Heroes.
- In Pokémon Adventures, Green is a main character.
[edit] Drugs
- Green is also a slang term for cannabis.
- Green Day is also a slang term for a recreative day spent with friends smoking cannabis.
[edit] Other
- Green may also denote the extent to which an environment or landscape is covered with plants and vegetation (eg. "Although parts of Hong Kong are densely populated, it is also one of the most green cities in Asia").
- Green was also the name given to the substance created by a failed attempt by the character Lord Percy Percy to produce gold using alchemy in an episode of the British comedy series Blackadder II.
- Green is also used as slang for "inexperienced", as slang for money, (commonly for the American dollar bill because of its color) and as slang for "horny".
- Green was used in the past as a derogatory term for an individual of Irish descent; used to describe loosely the "Irish race."
- Green is also the name of an h-game made by Jellyfish.
- A ceramic term, clay is referred to as being green when it has a achieved a state of 'leather hardness' and still workable, but not bendable.
[edit] See also
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