| verd | 1. The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel. The right of pasturing animals in a forest. 2. Greenness; freshness. See: Vert, Verdant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| verd antique | <chemical> A mottled-green serpentine marble. A green porphyry called oriental verd antique. Origin: F. Vert antique a kind of marble; verd, vert, green + antique ancient: cf. It. Verde antico. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verdant | 1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn. "Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass." (Milton) 2. Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth. Origin: F. Verdoyant, p. Pr. Of verdoyer to be verdant, to grow green, OF. Verdoier, verdeier, fr. Verd, vert, green, fr. L. Viridis green, fr. Virere to be green: cf. OF. Verdant verdant, L. Viridans, p. Pr. Of viridare to make green. Cf. Farthingale, Verjuice, Vert. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verdigris | 1. <chemistry> A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates. 2. The green rust formed on copper. This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris. <chemistry> Blue verdigris, an acid copper acetate; so called because the acetic acid used in making it was obtained from distilled vinegar. Verdigris green, clear bluish green, the colour of verdigris. Origin: F. Vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. Viride aeris (equivalent to L. Aerugo), from L. Viridis green + aes, aeris, brass. See Verdant, and 2d Ore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verdin | <zoology> A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; called also goldtit. Origin: Cf. Sp. Verdino bright green, F. Verdin the yellow-hammer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verdine | <chemistry> A commercial name for green aniline dye. Origin: F. Verd, vert, green. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verditer | <chemistry> Verdigris. Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue colour, like that of the pigment verditer. Origin: F. Vert-de-terre, literally, green of earth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verdoglobin | An obsolete term for choleglobin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verdohemochrome | An intermediate stage in haemoglobin degradation to yield the bile pigments, i.e., haemoglobin yields choleglobin (verdohemoglobin) and the loss of globin leaves verdohemochrome, the precursor of biliverdin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verdohemoglobin | <protein> A protein which is formed from the breakdown of haemoglobin (a protein that carries oxygen in the blood) and is a precursor to the bile pigment biliverdin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| verdoperoxidase | A peroxidase, occurring in leukocytes, that contains a greenish ferriheme; responsible for the peroxidase activity of pus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verdoy | Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border. Origin: F. Verdoyer to become green. See Verdant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |