verdant
[VUR-dnt]
-adjective
Definition: Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
-adjective
Definition: Green.
-adjective
Definition: Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.
Quotes:
1. Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring. — Shadows, Fire, Snow, Patricia Albers
2. Dry as the region just outside the delta may be, it would still be covered with grasses, yellowish in the dry season, verdant in the wet. — Life in the Balance, Niles Eldredge
3. I was verdant enough to think her Agrippine very fine. — Henry James, "The Thtre Franais"
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