Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a verdant manner Freshly; flourishingly After the manner of a person green or simple through inexperience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a verdant manner.

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  • adverb In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (green color.)
  • adverb In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (naivety.)

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Examples

  • Whatever, most of my plants were soon sickly and yellow, instead of lush and verdantly green.

    Thriving 2009

  • Whatever, most of my plants were soon sickly and yellow, instead of lush and verdantly green.

    2009 May « Becca’s Byline 2009

  • I agree this sounds unappealing: it's not, bubbling verdantly in the pan.

    The Broad and Narrow Way 2010

  • I agree this sounds unappealing: it's not, bubbling verdantly in the pan.

    The Broad and Narrow Way 2010

  • Then they need to plant a transgenic species that's hardier, grows short so no mowing needed, drought resistant, as fluffy as a kitten and as verdantly green as possible.

    Grasscrete® 2007

  • Dominating all, naturally enough, was the great volcano of Vesuvius, a fantastic hazy blue shape, its lower slopes verdantly fertile, its summit betraying only the faintest wisp of smoke, like a signal from the Vatican chimney.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • There shall we heare the pretty birds sweetly singing, see the hilles and plaines verdantly flouring; the Corne waving in the field like the billowes of the

    The Decameron 2004

  • Dominating all, naturally enough, was the great volcano of Vesuvius, a fantastic hazy blue shape, its lower slopes verdantly fertile, its summit betraying only the faintest wisp of smoke, like a signal from the Vatican chimney.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Instead of trees of a type, all flourished in the verdantly egalitarian domain.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart, would entwine itself verdantly still.

    Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms 2000

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