hypergreen

hypergreen

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ green

Adjective

hypergreen (not comparable)

1. Very or excessively green.
   • 2008, Saleema Nawaz, Mother Superior: Stories, Freehand Books (→ISBN):

     Without my arm prompting him to place one foot in front of the other, Brian would be standing here motionless, eyes wide. We are stopped in front of a portrait of a woman. Her hair is blonde and fine, painted in painstaking detail in the Flemish tradition. “She's a pretty girl,” says Brian. His free hand travels toward his crotch but I swat it away. I stop us in front of a Van Gogh. The hypergreen leaves at the base of the iris thrive and threaten. The grass is electrified, jutting upwards ...

   • 2015, Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry, Penguin (→ISBN), page 135:

     But to me, the corn seemed hypergreen. It looked unnatural. What corn and sorghum we'd raised when I was a kid had survived on our scant rainfall. Without irrigation, seeds had to be planted farther apart so that they could compete for moisture. Looking at a cornfield then, I'd seen as much gray dirt between the stalks as I had emerald green. Our old, dryland, prechemical approach had more in common with the way I'd seen Hopi Indians farm than it did with our present methods.