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单词 viridescent
释义

Definition of viridescent in English:

viridescent

adjectiveˌvɪrɪˈdɛs(ə)ntˌvɪrəˈdɛs(ə)nt
literary
  • Greenish or becoming green.

    淡绿色的;变成绿色的

    viridescent vegetation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
    • Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world, some are viridescent, mimicking the foliage that surrounds them.
    • Its body is albino and it has an intricate viridescent camouflage.
    • New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
    • Meanwhile, beyond the village peripheries, the Welsh hills were getting greener and greener - that iridescent, viridescent green that looks so wonderful on sunny days.
    Synonyms
    green, leafy, grassy, grass-covered

Derivatives

  • viridescence

  • nounˌvɪrɪˈdɛs(ə)nsˌvɪrəˈdɛs(ə)ns
    literary
    • The swill of rain water and leaves of lapsed viridescence swashed onto the lip of the pavement.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They were cities of leaves./I would lie under them/and my eyes would rise/buoyed up and surfeited/in immense rustling viridescence.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from late Latin viridescent- 'becoming green', from the verb viridescere, from Latin viridis 'green'.

Rhymes

acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent

Definition of viridescent in US English:

viridescent

adjectiveˌvɪrəˈdɛs(ə)ntˌvirəˈdes(ə)nt
literary
  • Greenish or becoming green.

    淡绿色的;变成绿色的

    viridescent vegetation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
    • Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
    • Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world, some are viridescent, mimicking the foliage that surrounds them.
    • Meanwhile, beyond the village peripheries, the Welsh hills were getting greener and greener - that iridescent, viridescent green that looks so wonderful on sunny days.
    • Its body is albino and it has an intricate viridescent camouflage.
    Synonyms
    green, leafy, grassy, grass-covered

Origin

Mid 19th century: from late Latin viridescent- ‘becoming green’, from the verb viridescere, from Latin viridis ‘green’.

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