Vert

Quick meaning: Vert is a noun meaning (heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

Meaning

(heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

More Meanings

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.
2. Abbreviation of vertical.
3. (colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
4. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
5. (biology, informal) Vertebrate.
6. (archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
7. (archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.

Example Sentences

The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.

A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted:[…].

Hippias not only came aboveground, he flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.

“I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”

Word Forms

• verts
• verting
• verted

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