verdure
/ˈvəːdjə
/ /ˈvəːdjʊə/noun [mass noun]
1Lush green vegetation.In fact, my partner, Lance, observed that the lush, manicured verdure through which we were driving looked like it was mown and rolled on a daily basis....
- Soon the rivers begin to flow, the ponds and the lakes fill to overflowing, and verdure covers the earth.
- Visitors climbing staircases from the street would enter the park amid the lush verdure.
1.1 literary The fresh green colour of lush vegetation.It is striking and effective, complementing the picturesque Trinity verdure....
- Natural colours such as sienna, coffee, verdure, burgundy, metal and champagne are chosen as ambient colours.
- My wish is if possible to obtain one of your true American Landscapes - taken on the spot - fresh from Nature in the deep verdure of late Summer.
Derivatives
verdured
- At the end of these days we set off down the estuary past innumerable little verdured islands.
- Once upon a time there lived a golden cow in the verdured hill of San Isidro.
- Gross area of all verdured lands and plants is more than 1607.6 ha.
verdurous
- There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land.
- As its wide spate washes up against a small verdurous spur, it swirls over waterweeds and drenched rocks to form an inlet in which goats splash.
- The room, if it could be called that, appeared verdurous, contradicting that of the cavernous underground she had been previously.
Origin
Late Middle English: via French from Old French verd 'green', from Latin viridis.