VERDANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verdant mean? 

• VERDANT (adjective)
  The adjective VERDANT has 1 sense:

1. characterized by abundance of verdure

  Familiarity information: VERDANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERDANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by abundance of verdure

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

verdancy (the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation)

 Context examples 

A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The full moon of March 9 might bring a fun little weekend trip with your partner to a mountainous area with a thick, verdant forest. (A full moon in earthy Virgo would bring you to a fertile area, but not likely one with water or snow.)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had set out from Whitcross on a Tuesday afternoon, and early on the succeeding Thursday morning the coach stopped to water the horses at a wayside inn, situated in the midst of scenery whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North- Midland moors of Morton!) met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have seen, he said, the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash with fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)