verdurous
Example Sentences
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The amateur botanist Allison Baird manages this verdurous showcase of botanical illustrations of our 50th state’s species — all captioned with both their Latin and Hawaiian names.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2020
I puréed the soup and tasted a rich, verdurous spoonful, humming with pleasure at the way it coated my tongue.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2019
And up to a million worms, collected as one, become a verdurous mat, bathing like a beach blanket beneath the sun.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018
God surrounds "delicious Paradise" with a "verdurous wall", enclosing his blessed but vulnerable human couple.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2011
Must I range o'er the snow-clad spots of verdurous Ida, and wear out my life 'neath lofty Phrygian peaks, where stay the sylvan-seeking stag and woodland-wandering boar?
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
