virid
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Is virid a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (literary, poetic) Green, verdant.Examples: "Her tombe vvas not of viride Spartane greet, / Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas vvrought, / But built of poliſht ſtone, and thereon laid / The liuely ſhape and purtrait of the maid."; "The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground."; "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."Synonyms: greenish, greenly, greeny, verdant, verdurous, vert, virescent, viridliterarypoetic
noun (English)
1. (literary, poetic, rare) A green colour.Examples: "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', […]"; "As to the regulation of the fire, if it is too hot the colour of the flowers will be yellow; if it is too cold the colour of the flowers will be virid or purple[…]."; "To inspect (a patient's) color includes (an examination) of the skin of (his/her) face and of the entire body. (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […]"literarypoeticrareuncountable
noun (English)
1. (virology, chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of related viruses.in-plural
Definition source: Wiktionary