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单词 verdant
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Definition of verdant in English:

verdant

adjective ˈvəːd(ə)ntˈvərdnt
  • 1(of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation.

    (田野)长满草(或其他绿色植物)的

    verdant valleys
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is not just youngsters who are flocking to this charming, antique building in a verdant setting.
    • Both are straight out of the pages of a racy period novel, with stunning views over a verdant valley where thoroughbreds roam free.
    • It is produced in verdant countryside inland from the coast north of the city of Oporto which is known as the Costa Verde or Green Coast.
    • Behind, where the verdant valley dropped away, is a market square, and behind that, a verdant valley.
    • This verdant valley at the meeting point of the Eastern and Western Ghats is bereft of any civic or infrastructure development.
    • For an especially breathtaking adventure, hike into Hanakapiai, one of the valleys past verdant, sleepy Hanalei.
    • But don't forget the Northern forests, lakes, beautiful hills and verdant valleys.
    • It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies.
    • Rising from the verdant splendour of the Ukrainian countryside, Zaporozhye looks like a diabolical inferno; a city on fire.
    • Before my gaze was a misty, lush forest, falling away in steep slopes and verdant levels to a hidden valley below.
    • She picks that not for it's literary history, as I was expecting, but rather for verdant countryside dotted with sheep.
    • The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
    • Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
    • The whole expedition was memorable, and I made myself a promise, that I would return to these verdant valleys soon again.
    • Tiny houses were strung out along our route, framed in their verdant patch of coffee, banana and vegetables.
    • North of Wellington, lushly tucked into the verdant Hutt River valley, lies Upper Hutt, population 36, 660, town of my youth.
    • St. Mary's is not clustered in a village as churches often are but stands alone in the verdant countryside.
    • From where we stand, we see the vast, verdant Kumaon valley.
    • Glorious shots of the verdant Cuban countryside alternate with graceful, old Spanish cityscapes from Havana.
    • The verdant hills and raised valleys are ideal for its commodes with ample erect telegraph poles to mark its new territorial space.
    Synonyms
    green, leafy, grassy, grass-covered
    lush, rich, flourishing, thriving, teeming, prolific, rampant, overgrown, dense, thick, jungle-like
    informal jungly
    rare verdurous, viridescent, virid, graminaceous, gramineous
    1. 1.1 Of the bright green colour of lush grass.
      青翠的,碧绿的
      a deep, verdant green

      深翠绿色。

      a serving of hideously verdant mushy peas
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then Las Alpujarras - the name is thought to derive from the Arabic for ‘high green place’ - are lush and verdant.
      • The deciduous forest patch was at its best after the monsoon showers, the grass a verdant green.
      • Greens are verdant and jade, while blues blend in various cobalt combinations.
      • Whatever happened to the colourful and verdant front gardens of old?
      • Pines and cypresses of verdant green, cliffside waterfalls and springs are all clearly seen.
      • Lush colors of dark purple with a mix of verdant green had formed a unique combination of shades on his body.
      • Visitors today see a green and verdant forest on the slopes of Mount Tom and assume it has always been that way.
      • I was shown some pretty wild examples of barreled actions in canary yellow, light burgundy, and verdant green!
      • Instead of verdant green, I'm a glow-in-the-dark sickly pale, bearing only the beginnings of undeveloped fruit and struggling to survive.
      • Looking into the mirror, he could hardly see the bright verdant eyes underneath his maze of zigzagging blonde hair.
      • The day I saw it, at close quarters, it was perfect - dense, even, verdant grass, not a mark on it apart from the statutory white ones.
      • Did I realise that the little valleys of that region are so verdant because it rains every day?
      • His bright verdant eyes widened in fear and panic as our hands suddenly lost contact.
      • I watched them waft in the breeze before settling gracefully into the verdant green grass between my boots.
      • The material is coarse and rough, the fabric verdant and winter green.

Derivatives

  • verdancy

  • noun ˈvəːd(ə)nsiˈvərd(ə)nsi
    • To the west there's the thriving verdancy of Roosevelt Island, to the northwest a graceful bend in the Potomac at Georgetown.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Why go to Switzerland for skiing and soaking in the scenic verdancy of the mountains when you can do it in Kashmir?
      • Isabelli cloaks herself in verdancy, and threads the most beautiful blooms of desert, forest grasslands and jungle alike through her hair.
  • verdantly

  • adverb
    • No longer used for growing crops, they are still verdantly green.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The general election campaign, which may or may not start this week, promises to be the most verdantly rural ever.
      • Fans of Oscar Wilde will recall that the verdantly carnationed Irish writer met his downfall over allegations that he had kissed a certain boy.
      • He uttered as he eyed me up and down as I sat verdantly on the wooden table.
      • It has blossomed verdantly and viciously since Howard gave silent assent.

Origin

Late 16th century: perhaps from Old French verdeant, present participle of verdoier 'be green', based on Latin viridis 'green'.

Definition of verdant in US English:

verdant

adjectiveˈvərdntˈvərdnt
  • 1(of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation.

    (田野)长满草(或其他绿色植物)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For an especially breathtaking adventure, hike into Hanakapiai, one of the valleys past verdant, sleepy Hanalei.
    • The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
    • It's the 1880s, and the West is still a tabula rasa, a never-ending sea of verdant prairies, rolling valleys and panoramic skies.
    • Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
    • St. Mary's is not clustered in a village as churches often are but stands alone in the verdant countryside.
    • Glorious shots of the verdant Cuban countryside alternate with graceful, old Spanish cityscapes from Havana.
    • Behind, where the verdant valley dropped away, is a market square, and behind that, a verdant valley.
    • It is produced in verdant countryside inland from the coast north of the city of Oporto which is known as the Costa Verde or Green Coast.
    • North of Wellington, lushly tucked into the verdant Hutt River valley, lies Upper Hutt, population 36, 660, town of my youth.
    • But don't forget the Northern forests, lakes, beautiful hills and verdant valleys.
    • She picks that not for it's literary history, as I was expecting, but rather for verdant countryside dotted with sheep.
    • From where we stand, we see the vast, verdant Kumaon valley.
    • This verdant valley at the meeting point of the Eastern and Western Ghats is bereft of any civic or infrastructure development.
    • It is not just youngsters who are flocking to this charming, antique building in a verdant setting.
    • The verdant hills and raised valleys are ideal for its commodes with ample erect telegraph poles to mark its new territorial space.
    • Tiny houses were strung out along our route, framed in their verdant patch of coffee, banana and vegetables.
    • Rising from the verdant splendour of the Ukrainian countryside, Zaporozhye looks like a diabolical inferno; a city on fire.
    • The whole expedition was memorable, and I made myself a promise, that I would return to these verdant valleys soon again.
    • Before my gaze was a misty, lush forest, falling away in steep slopes and verdant levels to a hidden valley below.
    • Both are straight out of the pages of a racy period novel, with stunning views over a verdant valley where thoroughbreds roam free.
    Synonyms
    green, leafy, grassy, grass-covered
    1. 1.1 Of the bright green color of lush grass.
      青翠的,碧绿的
      a deep, verdant green

      深翠绿色。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Lush colors of dark purple with a mix of verdant green had formed a unique combination of shades on his body.
      • Instead of verdant green, I'm a glow-in-the-dark sickly pale, bearing only the beginnings of undeveloped fruit and struggling to survive.
      • Pines and cypresses of verdant green, cliffside waterfalls and springs are all clearly seen.
      • His bright verdant eyes widened in fear and panic as our hands suddenly lost contact.
      • I watched them waft in the breeze before settling gracefully into the verdant green grass between my boots.
      • Then Las Alpujarras - the name is thought to derive from the Arabic for ‘high green place’ - are lush and verdant.
      • Whatever happened to the colourful and verdant front gardens of old?
      • The day I saw it, at close quarters, it was perfect - dense, even, verdant grass, not a mark on it apart from the statutory white ones.
      • Did I realise that the little valleys of that region are so verdant because it rains every day?
      • The deciduous forest patch was at its best after the monsoon showers, the grass a verdant green.
      • I was shown some pretty wild examples of barreled actions in canary yellow, light burgundy, and verdant green!
      • Looking into the mirror, he could hardly see the bright verdant eyes underneath his maze of zigzagging blonde hair.
      • Greens are verdant and jade, while blues blend in various cobalt combinations.
      • Visitors today see a green and verdant forest on the slopes of Mount Tom and assume it has always been that way.
      • The material is coarse and rough, the fabric verdant and winter green.

Origin

Late 16th century: perhaps from Old French verdeant, present participle of verdoier ‘be green’, based on Latin viridis ‘green’.

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