They were viridescent, almost metallic hued — verd-antique. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
I met with Sarcostemma ciliatum; Wall.? petalis extus viridescent, intus ciliisque purpuro sanguinies, but it is rare. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Always wanting the greener grass in the past or the future, even though we're standing on the lushest, viridescent field we've ever seen?. From Wordnik.com. [mrbradley Diary Entry] Reference
They seemed to taint the lower atmosphere with their glow, so that it did not surprise Gren to see cloud bars of viridescent hue, striping the sky. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
They were made of every one of the light, hard, ornamental substances: glittering glassein, the colorful but opaque Ordine plastic, viridescent magnesitic berylium. From Wordnik.com. [The Weapon Shops of Isher]
At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Meals] Reference
The viridescent ribbon of the Thames bound bridge to bridge running thematically through a symphony of grey and green and gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Orchard of Tears] Reference
The promontory on which Sorrento stands is barren enough, but southward rise pleasant cliffs viridescent with samphire, and beyond them purple hills dotted with white spots of houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Voices came to him from that part, and gleams of bright garments; and to get to them it seemed he must pass through a viridescent atmosphere flecked with blooms, and faintly sweet with odors. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Flores minut. viridescent. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Of viridescent earth and sapphire sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
They were viridescent, almost metallic hued -- verd-antique. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
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