green flash


noun
  1. a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.

Origin of green flash

1
First recorded in 1910–15

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How to use green flash in a sentence

  • My brother, keeping watch beside the women in the chaise in a meadow, saw the green flash of it far beyond the hills.

    The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells

British Dictionary definitions for green flash

green flash

noun
  1. astronomy a flash of bright green light sometimes seen as the sun passes below the horizon, caused by a combination of the dispersion, scattering, and refraction of light

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