{
  "id": "green.color",
  "term": "green",
  "sense": "color",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "none",
  "domain": "color",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a visual property that is a type of color",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "visual.perceptual",
      "property.attribute",
      "color.visual",
      "type.category"
    ],
    "interaction": "visual and property together form a distinct hue that categorizes a range of visual experiences",
    "novel_properties": [
      "distinct hue perception",
      "categorization of light reflection",
      "wavelength-based appearance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The leaves of the Amazon rainforest reflect light at 550 nm, appearing green to human observers.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The green band on a 1970s IBM Selectric typewriter's color wheel produced the letter 'g' in green ink.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ireland's national cricket team wears green jerseys during international matches, including the 2023 ICC World Cup.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "type.category",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "brown.color",
    "park.place"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "green",
    "greens"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "added missing constitutive components that were omitted in the original record; the definition remained intact as it is accurate but depended on unlisted nodes."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-green.color"
}