Definitions
Etymologies
- From the Latin viridis, from virere ‘to be green’. (Wiktionary)
- Latin viridis, from virēre, to be green. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A no-doubt dangerously obtained close-up of a group of children showed them huddled together, some coughing uncontrollably, others retching helplessly, great running sores on their faces, virid blood running from their noses or flecking their parched lips.”
“When called to patients in the stage of _Black Vomit_, whether that came on as an early symptom, or at a later stage, _Nit. acid_, _Veratrum virid. _ and _Baptisia_, all at the first dilution, were administered every hour, in rotation, with great success, the symptoms yielding in a few hours.”
“Gordon drove with his mind pleasantly vacant, lulled by the monotonous miles of road flickering through his vision, the shifting forms of distant peaks, virid vistas, nearby trees and bushes, all saturated in the slumberous, yellow, summer heat.”
“How are we fallen \ the virid leaves of hope Sear'd in their prime!”
“FoL fpitbam. alterna, fublyrata, laxa, glabra, fupra virid. fubtus pallida; lacin. ob - long. acutis, ioaequaLter dentat.”
“,Atque etiam virid; confeftim ejeftos ab hoito i, Mox duram Tubiit vitam plenamque laborif r yyOcclofo paradifo nequis more parentis,”
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“FlUm« 8.filiforiii. petalis iongiora, iiaft« qual. inclinata « Ifufco-virid.”
“But vicereversing thereout from those palms of perfection to anger arbour, treerack monatan, scroucely out of scout of ocean, virid with woad, what tornaments of complementary rages rocked the divlun from his punchpoll to his tummy’s shentre as he dis-plaid all the oathword science of his visible disgrace.”
“Then, while it is odrous comparisoning to the sprangflowers of his burstday which was a virid — able goddinpotty for the reinworms and the charlattinas and all branches of climatitis, it has been such a wanderful noyth untirely, added she, with many regards to Maha’s pranjapansies.”
“At foU supra difeo eonvexa, magis oHfcure virid* Pedunc, fu "perne minus incraffau.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘virid’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vulviform, vulvar, vulturine, vulpine, vulpicide, vulpecular, vulnerose, vulsella, vulnerary, vulnerate, vulgus, vulgo and 396 more...
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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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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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paintboxes and rainbows
color words
cyan, virid, magenta, teal, amaranth, periwinkle, cornflower, taupe, cerise, tawny, celadon, fuchsia and 64 more...
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gennessee's Words
rapscallion, sniffy, mizzle, rood, cachinnation, eldritch, crepitation, virid, riant, chary, geophagy, inveigle and 8 more...
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Green
Words meaning green.
olivascent, olivescent, olivaceous, olive, virid, glaucous, glaucescent, virent, virescent, viridescent, herbaceous, smaragdine and 8 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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.colour
viridian, viridescent, ochre, sapphirine, cimmerian, russet, carnelian, roan, cerise, pearlescent, umber, opaline and 14 more...
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green
chartreuse, emerald, corbeau, smaragdine, cerulean, tilleul, verdigris, vert, viridian, caesious, zinnober, itrine and 11 more...
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biocon Most dictionaries do not signify that the meaning "green" for virid is obsolete. Jun 2, 2011