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verdure

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Noun
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ver=dure

CIDE DICTIONARY

verduren. [F., fr. L. viridis green. See Verdant.].
     Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.  [1913 Webster]
    "A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

verdure, n.
1 green vegetation.
2 the greenness of this.
3 poet. freshness.

Derivative
verdured adj. verdurous adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. verd green f. L viridis

THESAURUS

verdure

botany, chloranemia, chloremia, chlorophyll, chlorosis, flora, flowerage, glaucescence, glaucousness, green, greenery, greenishness, greenness, greens, greensickness, herbage, leafage, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, umbrage, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, verdancy, virescence, viridity

ROGET THESAURUS

verdure

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

Greenness

N greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green.


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