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# verdant

«verdant» in Mova's school dictionary: **green and full of growing plants and grass** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (verdant, more verdant, most verdant)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal, literary) Verdant means green and full of growing plants and grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A describing word for poems and stories: «verdant meadows», «verdant hills». It paints a fresh, rich, green picture, as of the river banks in spring in The Wind in the Willows. In geography, wet climates such as Ireland's make the land verdant.

### examples

- The cows grazed in verdant fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x1)
- After the rain, the valley was verdant and fresh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x2)
- Ireland is famous for its verdant hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x3)
- The river banks were verdant in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x4)
- The garden became verdant again in May. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x5)
- The poet described the verdant forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x6)
- It was delightful to behold, as Proserpina hastened along, how the path grew verdant behind and on either side of her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/#x7)

### note

Formal; in speech say «green» or «lush». From an old French word for green (vert). Noun: verdure (green plants).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «verdant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verdant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.