Heavy Bergamot Forest

Old English hefig, weighty — cognate with heave. Used as a color modifier since at least the seventeenth century to indicate weight in saturation as much as value: heavy with pigment, heavy-bodied. In the engine's adjective grid, heavy sits alongside deep and plush in the dark-and-saturated quadrant. Closer to a fabric description than a pure value word.

Italian bergamotta, Calabrian-citrus-and-Earl-Grey-tea. As a color modifier, bergamot implies a Calabrian-citrus-and-Earl-Grey-tea quality, the visual register of Calabrian-bergamot-and-Earl-Grey-tea hand-Calabrian-citrus-and-Earl-Grey-tea Calabrian-bergamot-and-Earl-Grey-tea-and-Reggio-di-Calabria bergamot-and-Calabrian-citrus surfaces under Calabrian-bergamot-and-Earl-Grey-tea-and-Reggio-di-Calabria Reggio-di-Calabria-and-Twinings-Earl-Grey Calabrian-and-tea-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to zest and balm 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.