verdure
noun
greenness, especially of fresh, flourishing vegetation.
verdureless
-
a word derived from
verdure.
Example Sentences
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Situated where it can derive the most benefit from these streams is the village of Sherifabad, and beyond Sherifabad stretches a verdureless waste to Aivan-i-Kaif.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
To east and west the valley, now scarcely more green than those upper plains, bounded by its verdureless bluffs, ran crookedly, following the river course, its only sign of white dominion the rutted trail.
From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Ernest L. Blumenschein
It was a weird stretch of the repellent cactus, whose great gnarled branches locked and intertwined themselves in a verdureless mass of thorns and spikes which well might have daunted even an Indian.
From Jessica, the Heiress by Evelyn Raymond
None of us had seen this miserable, desolate country, treeless and verdureless, which the railway was now crossing on its road to the northeast.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
Out of a pink sky flakes of frozen dew were gently falling, starching the arid, verdureless soil with a glistening coat of evanescent white.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Ellsworth Douglass
