Viridescent

Viridescent is an adjective (Latin origin - 1847) which means greenish or beginning to turn green.  The word itself brings so many beautiful images to mind.  It is the color of green that shimmers, like young grass covered with dew and glimmering in the morning sunlight.  It is an extraordinary color of  nature.  

Here is an examples for use in a sentence: 

The young girls hazel eyes were filled with an viridescent glow of excitement as she approached school for the first time. 

Here is a lovely quote: 

“At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.”

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Check out the origin of this photo.  Quite remarkable!

http://gallery.rootriverphotography.com/Photography/The-Night-Sky/16119720_dKFvrx/1392721773_tGcCfsc#!i=1392721773&k=tGcCfsc