greeneryn.adj.

1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. Addenda at Curtilage A small piece of ground, enclosed behind a house; in which are planted all sorts of greens, and kitchen herbs; and may in our language be not improperly called the greenery.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Greenery, a place for green plants.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 5/3 The greeneries of the Thiergarten.

1910 U. Sinclair Samuel Seeker ix. 90 Here were acres of greeneries, filled with flowers of gorgeous and unimaginable splendor, and rare plants from every part of the world.

1972 N.Y. Mag. 12 Mar. 52/1 If you've ever been tempted to get a plant as you passed by one of the many greeneries dotting the city..here is a quick guide to the painless acquisition..of house plants.

2006 K. Lyons Corner of your Eyes xiii. 191 I was homesick for Dad's rockeries and greeneries,..his patched-up wheelbarrows, his whispering necklace of ferns.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 56 Here were forests ancient as the hills, And folding sunny spots of greenery.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 21 The out-door world with all its greenery.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 203 After an hour's riding through the greenery, he heard a rustle.

1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 49/2 The rabbits have their chosen creeps through the greenery below.

1966 P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 14. 2 The era of the motor-car smogged up greenery.

2007 M. Richards Growing Wild on Exmoor 84 Every field covered in snow and not a bit of greenery to be seen.

1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man II. i. 17 The villages were decorated by triumphal arches of greenery by day, and lamps by night.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xvi. 132 The greeneries of the winter had not been stuck up in the old-fashioned, idle way.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 495 The pictures..wreathed with myrtles, and other greenery.

1907 Gentleman's Mag. May 509 Helston is en fête with its floral adornments and display of greenery and bunting.

1969 E. Wilkins Rose-garden Game viii. 191 The old English Christmas globe,..made up of three interlocking hoops of greenery, hung from the ceiling and lit up with candles.

2003 B. Trapido Frankie & Stankie iii. 65 She decorates the Advent Kranz with greenery and hangs it over the dining table with tall candles and red ribbons.

1983 J. Porritt in Guardian 27 May 12/8 All the German Greens needed to get 27 MPs was 5.6 per cent of the vote. If that was all we needed there'd be an Ecology Party candidate in every constituency and greenery would be breaking out all over!

1992 Economist 8 Aug. 9/1 Popular greenery has swept into power a number of politicians who take their environmental responsibilities more seriously than most of their predecessors did.

2002 I. Blühdorn in A. Goodbody Culture of German Environmentalism vii. 106 The prediction that environmentalism and political greenery are no more than a passing fad is as old as the eco-movement itself.

2007 B. Archer in A. Wilcox et al. GreenTOpia 57 I sit in the cafeteria at the bottom of City Hall waiting to talk about greenery with a few of the environmental activists turned city councillors.

1896 San Francisco Chron. 26 Jan. 3/1 Dun-colored—that peculiar fashionable shade that had the greenery, yellow cast of a mustard plaster.

1902 H. G. Wells Sea Lady 65 ‘You have that beautiful greenery blue shimmer, I suppose,’ said Miss Glendower, ‘that one catches sometimes ever so faintly in Aquaria.’

1908 Punch 2 Sept. 176/1 He said that sort of greenery colour wasn't right for prawns.