Verdure

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
verdure
    n 1: green foliage [syn: {greenery}, {verdure}]
    2: the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation [syn:
       {greenness}, {verdancy}, {verdure}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Verdure \Ver"dure\, n. [F., fr. L. viridis green. See
   {Verdant}.]
   Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of
   the meadows in June.
   [1913 Webster]

         A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens,
         shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like
         a sea.                                   --Motley.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "verdure":
      botany, chloranemia, chloremia, chlorophyll, chlorosis, flora,
      flowerage, glaucescence, glaucousness, green, greenery,
      greenishness, greenness, greens, greensickness, herbage, leafage,
      plant kingdom, plant life, plants, umbrage, vegetable kingdom,
      vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, verdancy,
      virescence, viridity
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