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• n  green foliage
• n  the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

• The "Monumental Axis" in Brasilia and the immense Flamengo waterfront in Rio are alike adorned with the extravagant splendor of rain-forest verdureall manicured no more than .
• Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren.
• The verdure around Kuyera is misleading.

• greenery
• greenness
• verdancy

News & Articles

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• Will County Spelling Bee winner to go to nationals
  Riley Masterson’s love of words paid off when she was crowned the spelling bee champion at Hickory Creek Middle School in Frankfort. The eighth-grade student now will compete in the Will County Spelling Bee on Thursday. Riley said she was surprised to be the last one standing during the spelling bee in January. One word that especially challenged her was “verdure.” “I almost didn’t know how to ...
  March 1, 2014 - SouthtownStar

Quotes

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• Jane Austen in American Chronicle
  To sit in the shade on a fine day and look out upon verdure,wrote Jane Austen, "is the most perfect refreshment."
• Alexander von Humboldt in Telegraph.co.uk
  As the 19th-century German explorer Baron Alexander von Humboldt said: "Here, in a fertile country, adorned with the eternal verdure, we seek in vain traces of the power of man."