Blue–green distinction in language "azul-" means turquoise-blue. One can also make the distinction between "verde-claro" and "verde-escuro", meaning light and dark-green respectively, and more distinctions between several qualities of green: for instance, "verde-" means olive-green and "verde-" means emerald-green. Cyan is usually called "azul-celeste" (sky blue) or "azul-", meaning pool blue, but also less commonly "", and "verde-", meaning water green. Romanian clearly distinguishes between the colors green (') and blue ('). It also uses separate words for different hues of the same color, e.g. light blue ('), blue ("albastru"), dark-blue ("bleu-" or '), along with a word for turquoise (') and azure ('
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