hooker's green

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   green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge

   Broaderpigment

Questions about hooker's green

What does hooker's green mean?

hooker's green means "green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge".

Is hooker's green a common word?

hooker's 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.