Word:
Verdure
Status:
Noun
Meaning:
Describes the greeness of vegetation, or the condition of health
Sentences:
1) A good time to tour the wine country is when it is clothed with the verdure of midsummer.
2) We saw a portrait of a fresh-faced teenage girl in all her youthful verdure, at the art gallery.
Origin:
Middle English, from Anglo- French, from verd which means 'green'.
First use:
14th century
Synonyms:
flora, foliage, green, herbage, leafage, vegetation, greenery
Antonyms:
illness, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness
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