English
virid
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈvɪɹɪd/
Noun

virid (plural virids)

  1. (rare) A green colour.
    • 1991, Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages, Penguin Books, page 173 ↗:
      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’, […]
    • 1994, Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese, volume 1, Paradigm Publications, page 249 ↗:
      (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […]
Adjective

virid

  1. Green, verdant.
    • 1858, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Canto IV, page 52 ↗,
      The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.
    • 1929, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, 2006, page 135 ↗,
      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.
    • 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
      His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.
Related terms Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈvaɪɹɪd/
Noun

virid (plural virids)

  1. (usually, in plural) Any of a group of related viruses.


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