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verdures

verdures is the plural of verdure.

Meaning of verdure

Noun

verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)

  1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.
    • […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. (broadly) A condition of health and vigour.

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Questions about verdures

What is verdures the plural of?
Verdures is the plural of verdure.

Words near verdures in the dictionary

  1. verdun
  2. verduns
  3. verdure
  4. verdured
  5. verdureless
  6. verdures
  7. Verdurian
  8. verduring
  9. verdurous
  10. verdurously
  11. verdurousness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: verdures (page history and authors); verdure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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