Blue-green much larger color gamut than RYB color space. The first recorded use of "cyan" as a color name in English was in 1879. The color turquoise, a representation of the color of the semi-precious stone turquoise. The first recorded use of "turquoise" as a color name in English was in 1573. The color "turquoise" is a light tone of blue-green. Green-blue had been a Crayola color since 1958. It was continued as a Crayola crayon color until 1990. One definition of the color is in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5BG) although there is wide-spread acceptance and knowledge of the
Blue–green distinction in language "siwy" means blue-gray in Polish (literally it means the color of gray hair). The word "siny" refers to violet-blue and is used to describe the color of bruises ("siniaki"), hematoma, and the blue skin discoloration that can result from moderate hypothermia. Russian does not have a single word referring to the whole range of colors denoted by the English term "blue". Instead, it traditionally treats light blue (голубой, "goluboy") as a separate color independent from plain or dark blue (синий, "siniy"), with all seven "basic" colors of the spectrum (red–orange–yellow–green–голубой / "goluboy" (sky blue, light azure, but "does not equal"