Salubrious Mongol Ocean

Latin salūbris, healthful — adjectival suffix -ous. As a color modifier, salubrious implies a clear-and-healthful-and-fresh quality, the crisp color of Alpine-and-Sea-air health-resort and Mediterranean-coast spa-and-thalassotherapy outdoor environment. Sits at the crisp-and-wholesome end of the grid, parallel to healthful and bracing in usage.

Mongolian Mongɣol, Mongol. As a color modifier, mongol implies a steppe-and-Khanate quality, the visual register of Mongol-Khanate-of-Genghis Central-Asian steppe-Empire hand-built ger-and-mounted-cavalry-and-felt-rug-and-Khan-court surfaces under Karakorum-and-Mongolian-steppe Khanate-and-mounted-cavalry open-sky light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to tatar and hun in usage.

The body of saltwater that covers seventy percent of Earth's surface — a single connected mass divided by convention into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The color refers to the average reflectance of mid-depth temperate ocean: a saturated, slightly green-shifted deep blue with the optical depth of a body of water that absorbs all light below the photic zone. Deeper than mediterranean, cooler than peacock.