leek-green

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leek-green

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Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek. Oat crops are for the most part leek-green and promising well; some of the brown oats are whitening to harvest, and on some farms (outlying) are in stook.
Similar: porraceous, prasine, prasinous

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@misc{leek_green_2026,
  title = {leek-green},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leek-green},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}