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verdant

[vur-dnt] / ˈvɜr dnt /
ADJECTIVE
green, blooming
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Fold in winter greens — kale, escarole, spinach — and let them wilt just until tender but still verdant.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

A few kilometres from Salah's devastated fields, Muhummad Mohamad Ismail, 45, tends with great care to his verdant orange and papaya trees.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

The Karoo Basin, once contiguous with Antarctica—and later underwater and now semi-arid—was a verdant home for what the show says were six basic groups of therapsids.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

By Dec. 20 — even before holiday storms pummeled Southern California — the mountains were looking verdant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

A verdant, treacherous lawn, in which mosquitoes bred and fish were fat but inaccessible.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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