Blue–green distinction in language describe certain vegetables, apples, and vegetation. "Ao" is also the word used to refer to the color on a traffic light that signals one to "go". However, most other objects—a green car, a green sweater, and so forth—will generally be called "midori". Japanese people also sometimes use the word , based on the English word "green", for colors. The language also has several other words meaning specific shades of green and blue. The native Korean words (Revised Romanization: "pureu-da") or 파랗다 (parah-ta) may mean either blue or green, or bluish green. These adjectives and 파랗다 are used for blue as
Blue–green distinction in language from light blue to light grey. However, the term for a green apple, such as a Granny Smith, would be "ubhal glas". The boundary between colors varies much more than the "focal point": e.g. an island known in Breton as "Enez glas ("the blue island")" is called in French "l'Île Verte ("the green island")", in both cases referring to the greyish-green color of its bushes, even though both languages distinguish green (as in lawn grass) from blue (as in a cloudless midday sky). The Romance terms for "green" (Catalan ', French ', Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish ') are all