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Definition of "virid" []

  • Bright green with or as if with vegetation; verdant. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "virid" in a sentence
  • "A no-doubt dangerously obtained close-up of a group of children showed them huddled together, some coughing uncontrollably, others retching helplessly, great running sores on their faces, virid blood running from their noses or flecking their parched lips."
  • "When called to patients in the stage of _Black Vomit_, whether that came on as an early symptom, or at a later stage, _Nit. acid_, _Veratrum virid. _ and _Baptisia_, all at the first dilution, were administered every hour, in rotation, with great success, the symptoms yielding in a few hours."
  • "Gordon drove with his mind pleasantly vacant, lulled by the monotonous miles of road flickering through his vision, the shifting forms of distant peaks, virid vistas, nearby trees and bushes, all saturated in the slumberous, yellow, summer heat."