pea-green s of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color Usage(s) Lennie Bernstein sat at the piano, cheerfully surveyed the recesses of Carnegie Hall and opened his mouth to sing: Where, oh where are the pea-green. It was August when President Getlio Vargas shot himself in 1954, and when President Janio Quadros put out to sea in a fit of pea-green pique in 1961. Well back from the permanently frozen coast, the crew saw a series of pea-green, open-water lakes.