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greenery

[gree-nuh-ree] / ˈgri nə ri /




NOUN
verdure
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Those openings will arrive as Cava tries to add more greenery, warmer lighting and softer seats to its locations, in an effort to bring in more consumers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

“There are concrete houses and structures taking the place of greenery and that’s also adding heat to the atmosphere,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

But over the nearly one-and-a-half years since the 2025 mega-fires, native and invasive grasses, bushes and trees have begun to regrow, weaving flammable greenery across the landscape.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

New building and renovation norms focus quite naturally on insulation, greenery and hi-tech methods for air-circulation - with the express aim of making air-conditioning unnecessary.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

I stare out the window of the airplane and see miles and miles of greenery sectioned into perfect squares.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

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




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