Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dull green, mottled or veined serpentine used in interior decoration.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ornamental stone which has long been used and highly prized, having been well known to the ancient Romans.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A mottled-green serpentine marble.
  • A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy A mottled green serpentine marble.
  • noun mineralogy A kind of green porphyry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a dark green impure marble

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Obsolete French, from Italian verde antico : verde, green + antico, antique.]

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French vert antique a kind of marble; verd, vert, green + antique ancient: compare Italian verde antico.

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