Definition of "pea-green" [pea-green]

• A shade of green such as that of green or fresh peas. It is luminous but not very chromatic, not markedly yellowish nor bluish. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Two days after, when I looked at it again, the shepherdess's attire was changed -- she had on no longer the pea-green dress over the salmon, but a _salmon_ dress over a _pea-green_ slip."
• "Esther Kläs/Peter Blum Gallery, New York Esther Kläs's 'All in' (2011) at Peter Blum Chelsea But the work of Ms. Klas (b. 1981) is more reductive and less traditionally crafted—assembled in something easy and light called aquaresin, which she then colors in a range of neutrals, from military pea-green to dark brown to off-white."
• "Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells."