teal
Other forms: teals
Teal things are colored a deep shade of blue-green, like the sparkling teal water in a tropical lagoon. The color gets its name from a kind of duck, also called a teal.
The common teal is a migratory water bird, a duck with a teal stripe on its head and wings. The origin of the word is unclear, but we know the bird came first and then the color—the green-blue teal was first used in print in a 1923 clothing advertisement. It was added as an official color to the Plochere Color System, an interior design reference, in 1948, and became a Crayola crayon color in 1990.
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a blue-green color or pigmentsynonyms: blue green, bluish green
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of a bluish shade of greensynonyms: blue-green, bluish green, cyanchromaticbeing, having, or characterized by hue
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any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and Americatypes:type of:ducksmall wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
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Vocabulary lists containing teal
The words on this list do not denote color in and of themselves, but you can (and should) use them that way. They'll brighten your writing and make your descriptions more visually specific -- think apple green as opposed to bright green.