Saturated Flit Forest

From the Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, to fill. A technical color term in modern usage — saturation is one of the three axes of HSL (with hue and lightness). As a modifier, saturated implies that the hue is at or near its maximum chromatic intensity. Sits at the bold-and-bright top of the grid.

Old Norse flytja, to-move-or-shift. As a color modifier, flit implies a quick-darting-and-light-winged quality, the visual register of swallow-and-warbler-flit hand-quick-darting-and-light-winged swallow-and-warbler-and-darting-finch flitted-and-quick-darting-and-light-winged surfaces under swallow-and-warbler-and-darting-finch summer-eaves-and-hedgerow-and-meadow-edge dappled-flight-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to hover and flutter in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.