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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

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The perfume was heaviest there, and for a moment Bod wondered if snow might have fallen, for there were white clusters on the greenery.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

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




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