Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or property of being viridescent or greenish.

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

  • noun Quality or state of being viridescent.

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  • noun The quality or state of being viridescent.

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Examples

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  • I would lie under them and my eyes would rise buoyed up and surfeited in immense rustling viridescence.

    Archive 2007-04-03 Book Nerd 2007

  • I would lie under them and my eyes would rise buoyed up and surfeited in immense rustling viridescence.

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  • Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us -- and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence!

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • And high above all this, overlooking streets too steep for any vehicle, slope the red walls of the mouldering fort, patched with the viridescence of ruin.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • This viridescence is caused by the single-celled alga Oophilia amblystomatis.

    Scientific American 2010

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