virid
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin viridis, from vireō (“I am green”). Doublet of vert.
Pronunciation
Noun
virid (plural virids)
- (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; […]
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- 1991, Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages, Penguin Books, page 173:
Adjective
virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)
- 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.
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Etymology 2
From virus + -id or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] translingual viridae (“a grouping of viruses”), from virus + -idae, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin virus (“poison”)
Pronunciation
Noun
virid (plural virids)
- (usually in the plural) Any of a group of related viruses.
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