verdant
adjUS /ˈvɜɹ.dənt/
Etymology From Middle French verdoyant, from Old French verb verdier, verdoier, from vert (“green”), from Vulgar Latin *virdis, from Latin viridis.
1
Green in colour.
2
Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation.
- It was a verdant and delightful valley, watered by a rivulet ...1796, Francois Le Vaillant, New Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa By Way of the Cape of Good Hope in the Years 1783, 84 and 85, G.G. And J. Robinson, page 224:
- A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
3
Fresh.
4
Inexperienced.
- a verdant youth from the interior of Connecticut
- Hypernyms
- abundant, flourishing, healthy