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Word of the Day for Monday, July 6, 2009verdant \VUR-dnt\, adjective: 1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth. Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring. Dry as the region just outside the delta may be, it would still be covered with grasses, yellowish in the dry season, verdant in the wet. I was verdant enough to think her Agrippine very fine. Verdant comes from French verdoyant, present participle of verdoyer, "to be verdant, to grow green," from Old French verdoier, verdeier, from verd, vert, "green," from Latin viridis, "green," from virere, "to be green." | |||||||||
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