verdure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.

   […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

2. 2
   noun

   the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

3. 3
   noun

   green foliage

4. 4
   noun

   A condition of health and vigour.

Inherited from Middle English verdure, from Middle French verdure, from Old French verdure, from Late Latin *viridūra, from viridis (“green”) + -ūra (abstract noun-forming suffix).

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