: having a bright, light yellowish-green color
a lime-green shirt
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Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
The lime green dress has an early 2000s feel to it with its slip-style silhouette, high slit, and, of course, bejeweled details.
—Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
The author sat the doll version of herself next to two other plush characters, a boy with a red hoodie and big smile, and a girl with a lime green dress and bows tied around her afro puffs.
—Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
Hydrangea paniculata are easy-to-grow hydrangeas with mostly lime green, white or white with pink-tinged blooms round to pointed in shape.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2024
The nappa leather on a macintosh coat from fall 2022 is startlingly translucent lime green, revealing the barest outlines of the white undergarments beneath.
—Monica Kim, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
In a new cover story interview with Vogue Singapore, the British pop star, 31, responded to fan criticism of the cover artwork for her upcoming record, Brat, which simply features the title blurred out over a lime green backdrop.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
Dressed in a jumper and kilt over lime green shorts, with vintage stockings, pink and blue socks, and cloven boots, Gray, 28, cuts a suitably fantastical figure for our unorthodox setting.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2024
The lead photo on the funeral home tribute page displays Barnett posing before a lime green roadster, helmet tucked under one arm.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
At a crest in the road stood a breadfruit tree, full of basketball-size, lime-green fruits, knobbled and prehistoric, like a dinosaur egg covered in ostrich leather.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
Waddling in with lime-green booties on his front paws, Harrison, a beloved seven-year-old French bulldog, is a familiar sight at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York City.
—Thalia Beaty, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
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The beauty of this lime-green mojito?
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2024
Her two-story lime-green and orange home, with guest quarters rented to visitors, sits like a colorful dollhouse within the village.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 25 Feb. 2024
The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock
Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.
—Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
Best Hotels and Resorts La Fuente Inn & Suites
La Fuente Inn & Suites offers visitors the chance to kick back and relax around its mid-century modern pool, lined with bright, lime-green loungers ideal for sunning.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2024
The Marmalade variety produces frilly amber leaves dusted with pink, while Delta Dawn bursts with murky rose color and lime-green edges.
—Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
Noun
Elevated basics like a floral patchwork shirt by Bode and a lime green Acne Studios jacket were brought to life by Scribner.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
The lime green dress has an early 2000s feel to it with its slip-style silhouette, high slit, and, of course, bejeweled details.
—Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
The author sat the doll version of herself next to two other plush characters, a boy with a red hoodie and big smile, and a girl with a lime green dress and bows tied around her afro puffs.
—Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
Hydrangea paniculata are easy-to-grow hydrangeas with mostly lime green, white or white with pink-tinged blooms round to pointed in shape.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2024
The nappa leather on a macintosh coat from fall 2022 is startlingly translucent lime green, revealing the barest outlines of the white undergarments beneath.
—Monica Kim, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
In a new cover story interview with Vogue Singapore, the British pop star, 31, responded to fan criticism of the cover artwork for her upcoming record, Brat, which simply features the title blurred out over a lime green backdrop.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
Dressed in a jumper and kilt over lime green shorts, with vintage stockings, pink and blue socks, and cloven boots, Gray, 28, cuts a suitably fantastical figure for our unorthodox setting.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2024
The lead photo on the funeral home tribute page displays Barnett posing before a lime green roadster, helmet tucked under one arm.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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As the rest of the city heads out on a Friday evening, Alfredo Paniagua dons a lime-green vest, loads his 180-pound telescope into a van, and drives into the center of Madrid.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
At a crest in the road stood a breadfruit tree, full of basketball-size, lime-green fruits, knobbled and prehistoric, like a dinosaur egg covered in ostrich leather.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
Waddling in with lime-green booties on his front paws, Harrison, a beloved seven-year-old French bulldog, is a familiar sight at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York City.
—Thalia Beaty, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
How to Make Smoothies from Your Favorite Fresh Ingredients
07 of 15
DIY Mojito
View Recipe
The beauty of this lime-green mojito?
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2024
Her two-story lime-green and orange home, with guest quarters rented to visitors, sits like a colorful dollhouse within the village.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 25 Feb. 2024
The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock
Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.
—Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
Best Hotels and Resorts La Fuente Inn & Suites
La Fuente Inn & Suites offers visitors the chance to kick back and relax around its mid-century modern pool, lined with bright, lime-green loungers ideal for sunning.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2024
The Marmalade variety produces frilly amber leaves dusted with pink, while Delta Dawn bursts with murky rose color and lime-green edges.
—Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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