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greenery

[gree-nuh-ree] / ˈgri nə ri /




NOUN
verdure
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There’s a bakery/coffee shop, a lobby bar and restaurant, a poolside scene festooned with greenery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The home is surrounded in lush greenery and features several floor-to-ceiling windows that allow natural light to flood inside.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

As we walk through the greenery, it is eerily quiet bar bird song and the mewing of hungry, stray cats.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Rita thought it was ugly and outdated, so she’d covered it with greenery.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

His tiny legs moving so fast that they're a blur, he vanishes into the greenery of the park.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

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

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

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

Between-whiles he cast admiring glances of the most ardent delight at his garden of an acre and a half, and its glowing mass of apple-bloom,—and at all the luscious greeneries of the May world without.

From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron


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