rare. [f. Gr. χλωρός light green + -INE1.] Of the color of foliage in spring; light green, grass-green. (In quot. 1849 humorously ‘green.’)
a. 1849. Poe, Welby, Wks. 1864, III. 204. Nothing is more clear than this proposition—although denied by the chlorine critics.
1876. Besant & Rice, Gold. Butterfly, iv. 34. Trees … green with the first sweet chlorine foliage of April.
