verdant
adjective
green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass.
verdancy
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a word derived from
verdant.
Example Sentences
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Would the sudden and glorious verdancy of television soon by clipped into submission by cryptic algorithms and shoved into an entrance-fee-demanding hot house where myriad species competed to the death for air and sun?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
“Liebesfrühling” turns the metaphor of spring inside out, locating in its verdancy memories that cause anguish, as Gerhaher’s voice rises to a pained pitch suffused with light.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
The brightness and pungency of the pepper-laced tomato sauce, the chew of the pasta, the verdancy of the fresh parsley — it's all as fresh as a daisy.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2021
This once-arid expanse is now coated with such bright-green verdancy that it reminded me of Ireland.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2015
Wearily did he pass some of his time amidst the verdancy of the woods.
From The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy by Anonymous
