Kenneth L. Kelly and Deanne B. Judd.
"Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names",
National Bureau of Standards,
Spec. Publ. 440, Dec. 1976, 189 pages.
Color Name Dictionary: (B) Colour Terminology in Biology
Colour Terminology in Biology,
H.A. Dade
This combinatorial dictionary seems to be derived from Latin (eg. viridi-caeruleus). Its 128 names map to 789 colors, using 214 of the 267 centroids. But averaging over 6 colors per name means it has little descriptive power.
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/Color/Dictionaries#B