• (British) IPA: /ˈvɜːdjə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈvɜːdʒɚ/

verdure

1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare

     […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

     The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:

     To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.

2. (hence) A condition of health and vigour.

• verdant
• verdurous

• French: verdure
• Russian: зе́лень
• Spanish: verdor, vegetación

• French: vigueur

verdure (verdures, present participle verduring; past and past participle verdured)

1. (transitive) To cover with verdure.