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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

Spanning 5,920 square feet, the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom residence is tucked behind gates and surrounded by mature greenery, offering plenty of privacy in the sought-after California enclave.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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

He had been staring into the forest greenery when a deer appeared in abrupt focus.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

The way into the heart of the city led among its statues and greeneries.

From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

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

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

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

Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe




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