Virid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈvɪɹɪd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Virid is an adjective meaning (literary, poetic) Green, verdant.
Meaning
(literary, poetic) Green, verdant.
More Meanings
- (literary, poetic, rare) A green colour.
- (virology, chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of related viruses.
Example Sentences
The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground.
In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin 'like our other chaplains', […]
Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
His protuberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.
Word Forms
- virids
Synonyms for virid
Depending on context, synonyms include greenish, greenly, greeny, verdant, verdurous, vert.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include green, viridian, viridescent, verdurous, verdured, vegete.
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