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  1. adjective Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
  2. adjective Green.
  3. adjective Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.

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  • The sides of the cliffs in general consist of rude misshapen masses; but their summits are smooth and verdant, and continually browsed by herds of white goats, which were gambolling on the edge of the precipices as we passed beneath. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
  • Concord is indeed in itself decidedly verdant, and is an excellent specimen of a New England village of the riper sort. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hawthorne, by Henry James, Junr.
  • Trees and shrubs grew lush and verdant, and there was a small patch of lawn. —  The Divine Wind
  • In their verdant island, near to the heart and source of light, surrounded by the murmur of the sea, and so enriched by nature that the idea, of any other kind of riches never occurred to them, their existence went to a happy dancing measure like that of the fauns and nymphs in whose charmed existence they believed. —  Christopher Columbus, entire
  • Miller's childhood love for the verdant, fantastical world of C. S. Lewis's Narnia fell apart when, as a precocious thirteen-year-old, she was "shocked, almost nauseated" to accidentally discover their Christian subtext: Lewis wrote once that, with fairy tales like the Narnia stories, writers could "steal past those watchful dragons" of a reader's wariness, instilling knowledge of Christ without tripping off the alarms of skepticism. —  VQR
 

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  1. French verdoyant, from Old French, present participle of verdoyer, to become green, from Vulgar Latin *viridiāre, from Latin viridis.

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  1. from Old French verdant (?), French verdoyant, becoming green, from Latin viridan(t-)s, present participle of viridare, grow green, make green, from viridis, green, from virere, be green: see verd.
 

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