Limes
Lime is a color that is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890. Displayed at left is the web color lime, a light tint of chartreuse.

The term chartreuse was first used to refer to "a pale apple-green" in 1884. The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow. Another name for this color is chartreuse green