Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being green, especially as manifested in vegetation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Greenness; verdure; the state of having the color of fresh vegetation.
- noun In zoology, specifically, the greenness acquired by certain mollusks after feeding on viridigenous organisms; greening, as of the oyster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
- noun obsolete Freshness; soundness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
virid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
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Examples
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Flinx surveyed theall-encompassing sea of viridity, wherein every direction looked the same as any other.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Flinx surveyed the all‑encompassing sea of viridity, wherein every direction looked the same as any other.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Since Hereford Road is in dangerous proximity to Ladbroke Grove, I was sitting tight in my apartments on receipt of this grave intelligence, with funk in my heart, and the Unknown hovering above me, when my young friend HOWARD ALLBUTT-INNETT, Esq., arrived with his bicycle, like a god on a machine, and perceiving the viridity of my countenance, inquired sympathetically what was up.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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We cannot trace any common elements in sugar and scent, or in leaves and emeralds, by which to define sweetness and viridity; but we think we can discern some in the ludicrous.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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Nature, they will display new strength and viridity, and bring forth fruit in increased abundance.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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