greenth

noun — 2 senses

greenth

noun

/ɡɹiːnθ/

Etymology From green + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Dutch groente.

1

The state or quality of being green.

  • Imagine a rambling, patchy house, […] the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter […]1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 30, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
  • A large part of the forest growth on the northern slopes of Mt. Tamalpais is composed of it; and as it is an evergreen, it forms a mountain wall of delightful and refreshing greenth the year around.1897, Mary Elizabeth Parsons, The Wild Flowers of California, page 38:
2

Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle Green vegetation.

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