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 ("kallfü") and green ("karü", also meaning "raw" or "immature"). The word "payne" was formerly used to refer to a sky blue, and also refers to the bluish color of stones (Zúñiga, 2006). Blue–green distinction in language Many languages do not distinguish between what in English are described as "blue" and "green" and instead use a cover term spanning both. To describe this English lexical gap, linguists use the portmanteau word "grue", from "green" and "blue", which the philosopher Nelson Goodman coined in his 1955 "Fact, Fiction, and Forecast" to illustrate the "new riddle of induction". The exact definition of "blue"