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noun

Central Scot dialect grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement

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How to use back green in a sentence

Crown and back green, and tail rusty tipped with dusky, no notch in tail-feathers; in other respects like No. 433.
Color Key to North American Birds|Frank M. Chapman
To console them, he promised to bring back green parrots and golden bracelets, and embroidered satins from Japan.
Orientations|William Somerset Maugham
The window looked out on the back green, which was very much like the front, save that there was no flagged walk.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880.|Various