Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Green foliage; verdure.
- n. Such foliage used for decoration.
- n. A place where plants are grown.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pl. greeneries (-iz). A place where green plants are reared.—2. A mass of green plants or foliage; the appearance of color presented by such a mass.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Green plants; verdure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. green foliage
Etymologies
- green + -ery (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The draping greenery from the tree blends nicely with the village scenery, and you will also have much more room to experiment with the placement of your village pieces.”
“The mix of concrete and greenery is now the centerpiece of the park, a collaboration with the design firm James Corner Field Operations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Picturing Failure, Sketching Dreams
“Apparently I was wasting time that I could have been spending in the pub – I wish I had known that at the time on January 24, 2010 at 3: 07 pm buster as a probationer I wnt to a body hanging in a tree in a wooded area early January, the winter had stripped all leaves and greenery from the trees and it looked spooky a body silhouted against a grey sky.”
“Looking out on the yard with full greenery is a superb sense of feeling after waking up early in the morning.”
“I like to gather some greenery from the garden, infuse water with herbs, take a crystal (a remnant from my brush with the new age last century) and light a candle.”
“Than our mountain greenery with its mountain scenery”
“Laura: yes, greenery from the trees and bushes outside are the best choice because you do not have to store them in an attic or a box somewhere.”
“The church was decorated inside and out with fresh flowers, paper roses, palm fronds and greenery from the forest.”
“Reply sadly where i come from, we are rapidly running out of land (hence the expense) and the smallest piece of greenery is eyed by prospective developers.”
“The Arts Centre, set amidst acres of greenery is a stunning construction of glass and metal built using the sinews of an old railway building.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘greenery’.
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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green phrases/ words
green,how its used
green acres, green activist, green alder, green-and-gold, green and pale, green and wan, green anole, green apron, green architecture, green arrow, green ash, green audit and 393 more...
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Shopping From Home (For Words)
The list begins with evocative words I found in a Bed Bath & Beyond catalog, but other words in a similar vein are welcome, with two simple rules: they must come out of catalogs, and they can't...
sconce, mercer, urn, crock, pique, taffeta, chenille, ensemble, crescent, flocked, stockpot, microfiber and 40 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Colour my Wordie!
Words and short phrases with colour names in them
blackguard, black box, black market, blue moon, blue-collar worker, true-blue, blue-blooded, pink slip, tickled pink, pink elephant, white elephant, white gold and 81 more...
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Wolfy's Words
wolfy, fauna, evergreen, fuzzy, smorgasborg, architecture, bedlam, endow, exceptional, extrinsic, free, excalibur and 70 more...
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Sowell, Thomas. Economic Facts and Fa...
stringent, trite, mired, doctrinaire, rhetoric, greenery, incipiency, suburbanites, marauders, dicey, beeline, muck and 2 more...
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rudabeckia's Words
cross, wholly, lobe, sauce, quarrel, horrid, wooly, chutney, cheery, starling, vex, woolen and 67 more...
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verdure
word garden
botany, flora, flowerage, greenery, herbage, vegetation, verdure, horticulture, husbandry, herb, annual, blossom and 72 more...
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To Hex or Not to Hex?
The meanings of symbols in Pennsylvania Dutch "hex signs". Sources have long disagreed about whether these signs are/were meant to be actual magical devices. Either way, they sure are handsome.
distlefink, eight-pointed star, red tulips, wheat sheaves, wilkum, lucky star, greenery, maple leaf, eight-petal rosette, willkommen, red heart, coupled tulips and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for greenery.
reesetee A PA Dutch folk art symbol of a bountiful life. Nov 20, 2007