virid
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of virid
1590–1600; < Latin viridis green, for *viridus, equivalent to vir ( ēre ) to be green + -idus -id 4
Example Sentences
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Virid of Reston named Amanda Ballish account director.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2010
One who frequents it proposes to call it Virid Lake.
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
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