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verdant

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ver·dant  (vûrdnt)
adj.
1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
2. Green.
3. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.
[French verdoyant, from Old French, present participle of verdoyer, to become green, from Vulgar Latin *viridire, from Latin viridis.]
verdan·cy n.
verdant·ly adv.
verdant [ˈvɜːdənt]
adj
1. covered with green vegetation
2. (of plants, etc.) green in colour
3. immature or unsophisticated; green
[from Old French verdoyant, from verdoyer to become green, from Old French verd green, from Latin viridis, from virēre to be green]
verdancy  n
verdantly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.verdant - characterized by abundance of verdure
abundant - present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
verdant
adjective (Literary) green, lush, leafy, grassy, fresh, flourishing a small verdant garden with a view over Paris
Translations
verdant [ˈvɜːdənt] ADJ → verde
verdant [ˈvɜːrdənt] (literary) adj (= lush) → verdoyant(e)
verdant
adj (liter) → grün
verdant [ˈvɜːd/ənt] adj (liter) → verdeggiante
verdant [ˈvɜːd/ənt] adj (liter) → verdeggiante


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How many visions of a maiden that is No more - no more upon thy verdant slopes
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Chief among these latter was a great Sperm Whale, which, after an unusually long raging gale, had been found dead and stranded, with his head against a cocoa-nut tree, whose plumage-like, tufted droopings seemed his verdant jet.
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It was two hours, owing to sundry wrong turnings, ere she found herself on a summit commanding the long-sought-for vale, the Valley of the Great Dairies, the valley in which milk and butter grew to rankness, and were produced more profusely, if less delicately, than at her home--the verdant plain so well watered by the river Var or Froom.
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