Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bright green with or as if with vegetation; verdant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Green; verdant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Green.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bright green colour.
- adjective Having a bright green colour
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A no-doubt dangerously obtained close-up of a group of children showed them huddled together, some coughing uncontrollably, others retching helplessly, great running sores on their faces, virid blood running from their noses or flecking their parched lips.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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A no-doubt dangerously obtained close-up of a group of children showed them huddled together, some coughing uncontrollably, others retching helplessly, great running sores on their faces, virid blood running from their noses or flecking their parched lips.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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When called to patients in the stage of _Black Vomit_, whether that came on as an early symptom, or at a later stage, _Nit. acid_, _Veratrum virid. _ and _Baptisia_, all at the first dilution, were administered every hour, in rotation, with great success, the symptoms yielding in a few hours.
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Gordon drove with his mind pleasantly vacant, lulled by the monotonous miles of road flickering through his vision, the shifting forms of distant peaks, virid vistas, nearby trees and bushes, all saturated in the slumberous, yellow, summer heat.
Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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How are we fallen \ the virid leaves of hope Sear'd in their prime!
Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D. Hugh Downman 1792
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FoL fpitbam. alterna, fublyrata, laxa, glabra, fupra virid. fubtus pallida; lacin. ob - long. acutis, ioaequaLter dentat.
Summa plantarum 1791
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,Atque etiam virid; confeftim ejeftos ab hoito i, Mox duram Tubiit vitam plenamque laborif r yyOcclofo paradifo nequis more parentis,
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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FlUm« 8.filiforiii. petalis iongiora, iiaft« qual. inclinata « Ifufco-virid.
Summa plantarum Fulgenzio Vitman 1789
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But vicereversing thereout from those palms of perfection to anger arbour, treerack monatan, scroucely out of scout of ocean, virid with woad, what tornaments of complementary rages rocked the divlun from his punchpoll to his tummy’s shentre as he dis-plaid all the oathword science of his visible disgrace.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Then, while it is odrous comparisoning to the sprangflowers of his burstday which was a virid — able goddinpotty for the reinworms and the charlattinas and all branches of climatitis, it has been such a wanderful noyth untirely, added she, with many regards to Maha’s pranjapansies.
Finnegans Wake 2006
biocon commented on the word virid
Most dictionaries do not signify that the meaning "green" for virid is obsolete.
June 2, 2011