Sentence examples for greenish skin from inspiring English sources

Both Russets have greenish skin like sandpaper and aren't the greatest to look at, but their tastes are "unique and excellent," Mrs. Bronson said.

It is followed by a vision of "an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic".

The man suddenly remembered an epileptic patient he had seen in an asylum who had greenish skin and sat "like some sort of Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely nonhuman.

Perdita's preferred family are Billy, a deaf-mute boy with "upstanding ginger hair and stippled greenish skin", and Mary, a literate Aboriginal ("half-caste") teenager drafted in from a convent to care for her during Stella's bouts at a lunatic asylum.

In their night vision goggles, they have been mistaken for the mythical chupacabra, who is said to have greenish skin.

My personal favorite is Adriatic, which has small fruits with very thin, greenish skin and intensely flavored strawberry jam pulp.

The Agriculture Department's National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Winters, west of Sacramento, has a collection of 60 types of pomegranates, with red, yellow, orange and greenish skins.

Their identification is tricky although the Little Egret tends to show a longer and thicker bill, grayish or greenish loral skin, often grayish-yellow feet rather than bright yellow, and rather than a fluffy set of head plumes it has two stiff plumes on the nape.

Except for the Keitt, which always stays green, a greenish-gray skin usually indicates that the mango will not ripen properly.

The Jamaican Ugli fruit, a large tangelo with rough greenish-yellowish skin, which has slowly been gaining a commercial following, had a sulfuric undertone that Hagen suspected was caused by prenyl mercaptan — which is often found in skunky beer.

Elizabeth, a four-foot-long iguana with greenish-brown skin, came to the museum as an adoptee in 1993 and soon went to work as part of the "tractable collection," a group of animals used for public handling and educational programs.