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A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green." Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot.

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant. [R.]

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

pic plant of the family Desmidiæ, a group of unicellular algæ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.

; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

Gambling with dice. J. R. Green.

A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

g essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

ooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.

Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward." Congrewe.

Shak. And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee. J. R. Green.

Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.