adjective
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covered with green vegetation
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(of plants, etc) green in colour
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immature or unsophisticated; green
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Etymology
Origin of verdant
Explanation
When something is green with plant life it's verdant, a word often used to idealize the countryside with its verdant pastures or verdant hills. Here's a trick for internalizing verdant's meaning: If you speak Spanish, think of verde — meaning "green." If you speak French, think of vert. Both French and Spanish inherited their words for green from Latin, in which green is viridis. Verdant also can mean grass-colored: "She wore a dress of verdant green."
Vocabulary lists containing verdant
The Vernal Vocabulary of Spring
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Example Sentences
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“The answer isn’t to shut the door,” says Anna Kaltenboeck, president of Verdant Research, who helped draft drug-pricing laws under the Biden administration.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Dente’s Verdant Structural Engineers was involved with getting straw bale approved as a building material and — along with advocates like Loescher — is pushing for the adoption of more nature-based materials into the code.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
The salad called Verdant ate the same way, arguably too salty with Castelvetrano olives, artichoke and ranch dressing.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024
Verdant woods gave way to scrubby brushland and desert; most of the large mammals disappeared.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2023
Verdant green eyes looked up at her from beneath long black lashes.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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