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VERDURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("verdure" is a kind of...):
cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Green foliage
Synonyms:
greenery; verdure
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("verdure" is a kind of...):
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Context examples:
The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I in my town-bred life could have imagined, shooting upwards in magnificent columns until, at an enormous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic obscurity.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
