greening
greening Lexical Profile
greening Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The process of transforming spaces, policies, or organizations to be more environmentally friendly, sustainable, or abundant with vegetation.
"The municipal government invested heavily in the greening of downtown plazas by planting hundreds of native shade trees."
The process or state of becoming green in color, especially through the seasonal growth of new foliage or the development of chlorophyll in plant tissues.
"Satellite imagery captured the rapid spring greening of the northern valleys following the snowmelt."
A destructive bacterial plant disease, especially citrus greening (huanglongbing), transmitted by psyllid insects and characterized by blotchy yellowing leaves and bitter, misshapen, unripened fruit.
"Citrus growers across the region have struggled to protect their orange groves from the rapid spread of greening."
Any of several varieties of culinary apple (such as the Rhode Island Greening) whose skin remains green even when fully ripe, prized especially for baking and cider.
"She picked a basket of tart greenings from the orchard to bake a traditional autumn apple pie."