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greenth

American  
[greenth] / grinθ /

noun

  1. green growth; verdure.


Etymology

Origin of greenth

First recorded in 1745–55; green + -th 1

Example Sentences

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Overhead was a brilliantly blue sky with here and there slow-sailing white clouds whose soft shadows came and passed, silent and entrancing, over the greenth of the prairie.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)

"For," says Lewes incidentally in a letter, "Mrs. Lewes never seems at home except under a broad sweep of sky and the greenth of the uplands round her."

From Mathilde Blind by Eliot, George