brownish-green s of green tinged with brown Usage(s) It propels its long brownish-green body through the water by four flippers, occasionally rearing its great head like a gigantic water snake. Ferial is a chestnut-haired beauty with brownish-green eyes, a slender waist and notable bosom. The building which housed the world's town meeting lay strangely isolated in the brownish-green emptiness of dead lawns. Synonym(s) brown-green