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Green River (band)
Green River was a Seattle band formed in 1984, among the first grunge bands, releasing Come On Down, Dry as a Bone, and Rehab Doll; its breakup produced Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, and Pearl Jam.
Green River Formation
The Green River Formation is an Eocene rock unit in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, known for exceptionally preserved fossils and the largest oil shale resource on Earth.
Green roof
A green roof, also known as a living roof or eco-roof, is a building roof covered with vegetation planted in engineered growing medium over waterproofing, drainage, and root-barrier layers.
Green room
Green room: the backstage lounge in theaters, concert venues, and TV studios where performers wait and relax offstage; also called greenroom. Distinct from the dressing room; name origin uncertain, first clear theatrical use in Shadwell's A True Widow (1679).
Green Room (film)
Green Room is a 2015 horror-thriller written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, distributed by A24, starring Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, and Imogen Poots as a punk band trapped by neo-Nazi skinheads in an Oregon club's green room.
Green rust
Green rust is a family of mixed Fe(II)–Fe(III) layered double hydroxide compounds, named in 1959, that form during iron corrosion and reduce contaminants such as nitrate and Cr(VI).
Green sauce
Green sauce (salsa verde, sauce verte, Grüne Soße) is a category of cold, mostly uncooked herb- or tomatillo-based sauces: Italian caper-anchovy salsa verde, Argentine chimichurri, Mexican tomatillo salsa, French herb mayonnaise, and Frankfurt's seven-herb EU-protected specialty.
Green sea turtle
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), largest hard-shelled sea turtle and the only herbivorous sea turtle, eating seagrasses and algae; named for greenish fat; nests in over 80 countries; IUCN reclassified Endangered to Least Concern in 2025.
Green SM
Green SM, formerly Xanh SM, is a Vietnamese all-electric taxi and ride-hailing service operated by GSM, founded by Vingroup Chairman Pham Nhat Vuong in 2023.
Green Snake (青蛇)
Green Snake (青蛇) is Tsui Hark's 1993 Hong Kong fantasy film adapted from Lilian Lee's novel, retelling the White Snake legend from the green snake's viewpoint, starring Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Hsin-kuo, and Chiu Man-cheuk.
Green solvents
Green solvents are solvents chosen or designed to reduce environmental, health, and safety burdens compared with petroleum-derived solvents, forming a major focus of green chemistry.
Green space
Green space: vegetated urban land such as parks, urban forests, gardens, and street trees, linked to mental, physical, and social health benefits, climate cooling, and biodiversity, with unequal global access.
Green Sprouts Law
The Green Sprouts Law (青苗法) was a Northern Song law of 1069 under which the government lent money to farmers at interest, devised by Wang Anshi.
Green Standard Army (绿营兵)
The Green Standard Army (绿营, Lüyíng, Manchu Niowanggiyan turun-i cooha) was the Qing dynasty's larger standing army of Han soldiers, formed from surrendered Ming troops after 1644, three times the Eight Banners in size, garrisoned across the provinces with police duties, and dissolved in the late-Qing New Policies reforms.
Green Star (building rating system)
Green Star is an Australian sustainability rating and certification system for buildings, interior fitouts, and communities, administered by the Green Building Council of Australia since 2003, with more than 7,500 projects certified.
Green steel
Green steel is steel made with much lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal-based steelmaking, using electric arc furnaces or hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron ore.
Green stink bug
Green stink bug (Chinavia hilaris, formerly Acrosternum hilare), a bright green North American pentatomid pest of seeds, nuts, and fruit; 14–19 mm, univoltine north and bivoltine south, causes catfacing on peach and kernel damage in crops.
Green Street (film)
Green Street, aka Green Street Hooligans, is Lexi Alexander's 2005 debut drama starring Elijah Wood as an expelled Harvard student who joins the GSE, a West Ham football hooligan firm, in London.
Green strength
Green strength is the strength of an unfired compact of ceramic or metal powder, allowing fragile green bodies to be demoulded, machined, and handled before sintering.
Green tea
Green tea (绿茶) is unoxidized Camellia sinensis tea, fixed by steaming or pan-firing. Oldest of the six Chinese tea categories; four Chinese types, Ming-era loose-leaf shift, EGCG content, and brewing temperatures distinguish it.
Green v Lord Somerleyton
Green v Lord Somerleyton [2003] EWCA Civ 198 is an English Court of Appeal case on flooding nuisance and drainage easements, holding the Leakey duty covers naturally flowing water but was discharged, and confirming an implied easement.
Green Vault
The Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) is the treasure chamber of the Saxon electors and kings in Dresden's Royal Palace, Germany, holding Europe's largest collection of treasures, around 4,000 works.
Green Velvet (musician)
Green Velvet is the stage name of Curtis Alan Jones, an American DJ and producer from Chicago, also recording as Cajmere, known for "Flash" and "La La Land".
Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez
Green Versace "jungle dress," a palm-print silk chiffon gown by Donatella Versace worn by Jennifer Lopez at the 2000 Grammys; the search demand it created led to Google Images in July 2001.
Green wave
A green wave is a traffic signal coordination scheme timing successive intersections so a vehicle traveling at a set speed hits green lights without stopping.
Green Wing
Green Wing is a British Channel 4 sitcom (2004–2006) created by Victoria Pile, set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital with almost no medicine. Known for hour-long episodes, speed-ramp editing, and its Tamsin Greig–Stephen Mangan–Michelle Gomez ensemble.
Green World Ecological Farm
Green World Ecological Farm (綠世界生態農場) is a 75-hectare ecological farm opened in 2004 in Beipu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, with six theme parks, 46-47 scenic spots, over 500 water plant species, and daily animal shows.
Green Zone
The Green Zone (Arabic: المنطقة الخضراء), officially the International Zone, is a fortified district in central Baghdad on the Tigris River that houses Iraq's government and the U.S. Embassy.
Green Zone (film)
Green Zone (film) is a 2010 action thriller directed by Paul Greengrass. It stars Matt Damon as a U.S. Army officer searching for weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad.
Green-cheeked parakeet
Green-cheeked parakeet (Pyrrhura molinae), also called green-cheeked conure, a small South American parrot of Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil; IUCN Least Concern, decreasing, six subspecies, popular in the pet trade.