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Verdancy

Verdancy \Ver"dan*cy\, n. The quality or state of being verdant.

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verdancy

n. the state of being verdant

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verdancy

n. lush greenness of flourishing vegetation [syn: greenness, verdure]

Usage examples of "verdancy".

The weather was beautiful, with gentle sunshine and the fresh verdancy of the valley.

Alas, the presence of goats will spell the end of verdancy for these ancient hills.

The coloring of woods and mountains stood out again in the resplendent verdancy of spring after the torrents of rain, like the wet colors of some freshly washed painting.

A sparse carpet of new green grass, just beginning to shoot its tiny leaves through the moist soil, painted a thin watercolor wash of verdancy on the rich brown earth of clearings and knolls.

Instead, quick-rooting and sprouting herbs and grasses, already chest high, whose youthful verdancy was lost to the drab hue indeterminate between green and gold, stretched to the horizon.

Diverge, and rich loamy earth and the green of a young verdancy and burrowing to escape crushing monsters.

Not the bluish evergreen timbers of the Russian taiga and western American forest they had flown over but the trees of the startling verdancy that Adrienne knew from her youth in France, a kind of green she had almost forgotten.

The planet matured into a jungle world, a landscape of swamps and lush verdancy, where giant ferns covered the surface from pole to pole, and were themselves webbed and choked with tenacious creepers reaching for the clear sky.

She gazed at the green verdancy of the Blackthorn estate, noted the mixture of Celtan trees and Earth trees and hybrids.

The fecund and unblemished verdancy of Earth, an innocent Earth, before the Fall.

Tall and green, lush and quiet, they were legendary throughout the Empire, not only for their verdancy and their peaceful music, but also because they hid the greatest city ever constructed.

You know, perhaps, that two sophomores took advantage of her verdancy and hazed her.

The frozen ground slumped under the ceaseless rasp of the wind and the weight of the snowdrifts until it looked like irreparable disconsolation or apathy, an abdication of loam and intended verdancy.

He felt enclosed by incondign verdancy, a savage ecstasy of growth more insidious than walls, and more stifling.

The mesquite, the salt cedar, the cottonwoods and willows grew from skeletal barrenness to startling verdancy.