verdurous

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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

It was as if all the ruddy and verdurous juices had died in the veins of the world, and from core to surface only gray remained.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various