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greenery

[gree-nuh-ree] / ˈgri nə ri /




NOUN
verdure
Synonyms


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This weekend — the first that the museum was open to the public — fences covered in plastic greenery blocked entry to the plaza from both sides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Rita thought it was ugly and outdated, so she’d covered it with greenery.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

More than a decade later, the restaurant has moved into a larger, airier space filled with greenery — and somehow, the bar keeps getting higher.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The outside of the property comes complete with lush greenery, direct beach access, and advanced security.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The wind softly caressed the newborn greenery with a nurturing breeze and skimmed the Jade River, the water now as clear as tears of joy.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

I stared after her for a moment or more, watching the pretty brown dress flashing in and out of shadow among the ragged greeneries, shafts of sunshine now and then flashing upon her hair.

From The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

Each, in deference to the long-established tradition of the neighbourhood, bore a garland of ferns and other greeneries, and each came armed with the necessary pin that was to work the spell.

From The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness.

From What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge

At home they had had some lilac bushes and a row of peonies; here were acres of greeneries, filled with flowers of gorgeous and unimaginable splendor, and rare plants from every part of the world.

From Samuel the Seeker by Upton Sinclair

Of these, indeed, the growth is luxuriant, and the path which leads down from the high-road to the cottage is cut through what might be called a grove of these leafy greeneries.

From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever




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