The phrase "a dusky green" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a shade of green that is somewhat dark or muted, often evoking a natural or earthy tone.
Example: "The walls of the room were painted a dusky green, creating a calming and serene atmosphere."
Alternatives: "a muted green" or "a dark green shade".
Among farm-to-table cooks and those who sit down to dinner with them, asparagus heralds the start of the season's bounty in New Jersey, with the first dusky green stalks poking up in mid-April and the season winding down in late May or early June, depending on the weather.
However, their exquisite color combinations — brick red and manila, blue and aqua, three dusky greens — impart gravitas.
From the hammock on our balcony looking over a dusky blue and green panorama, the rest of the city seemed at a safe and manageable remove.
This is the plant that changes in sunlight from Kermit green to a dusky pink, creating optical wonders.
Jake's avatar — wasp-waisted, nine feet tall, blue — walked through a dusky forest thick with purple, green, pink, and cyan plants that pushed past the boundary of the screen and gently grazed the air, like plastic foliage poking out from a busted terrarium.
In addition, Faial provided just enough activity -- like hiking and scuba diving -- to justify mornings spent lingering over a second espresso at an open-air cafe, or lolling on a dusky volcanic beach hemmed between shimmering green mountainsides and water blue enough to make the Caribbean seem pale.
Rough, projecting boxes frame small, green glass windows, creating a dusky, verdant light within, where you can sit on a bench and have a shot of whiskey decanted from a bottle on a shelf at the entrance.
The grounds are landscaped with dusky-green plants (no flowers, please), and the backyard holds a vegetable garden and a studio full of research materials that Ms. Oppewall used on films like "Catch Me if You Can," "Wonder Boys" and "The Bridges of Madison County".
But the prize must go to gorgeous P. tenuifolium 'Irene Paterson', whose leaves emerge cream, fade to a soft green splashed with white, then turn a dusky pink.
They were denser than real falafel, but richer, with a pronounced fresh green taste from the cilantro and parsley and a dusky fragrance from the ground spices.
