celadon

This word is derived from the name of the hero Céladon, in d'Urfé's 17th-century romance L'Astrée, whose name was itself borrowed from a figure in Ovid's Metamorphoses. I don't know how it became associated with grayish green, though Webster's 3rd College tells me that, because of the d'Urfé character, it first (in French) meant "a tender lover."

Oh. So a real diplodocus or small triceratops. That changes everything.

No, it's shaped kind of like, I don't know... either a diplodocus or a smaller version of a triceratops. Only it's celery- (greenish-yellow) colored.

And it isn't actually, you know, glazed. Cuz then it couldn't move and make that "AAAAAAHRT!" noise that it makes.

Made out of celadon?? Me too! ;-)

I know what this word actually means, but whenever I hear it, I always picture a celery-colored dinosaur.