cress green

1. 1.

   of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green

   Synonymscressonwatercress

   Similarchromatic

Questions about cress green

What does cress green mean?

cress green means "of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green".

What is another word for cress green?

Close synonyms include cresson, watercress. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cress green a common word?

cress green is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.