verdured

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English

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Etymology

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verdure +‎ -ed

Adjective

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verdured (not comparable)

  1. Covered with verdure; green and lush; verdant.
    • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works[1]:
      About midway in the short vista which my dreamy vision took in, one small circular island, profusely verdured, reposed upon the bosom of the stream.
    • 1918, James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King[2]:
      After a time, fully two miles away, he saw sheep grazing on a thinly verdured slide.