What's the difference between verdant and verdured?
Verdant
Definition:
(a.) Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
(a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(2) After all, on old MacDonald’s bucolic farm the cows grazed contentedly on verdant fields.
(3) The abandonment of industry in most innercities left large areas free for grass, weeds and all manner of more exotic things to grow on them, and in recent years, those spaces have been reclaimed rather than simply built over; both the London Olympic Park and, much more impressively, the New York High Line are the transformation and decontamination of these verdant wastes, turning them into verdant parks.
(4) We are playing college football here and grounds are verdant!
(5) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(6) An 18-hole golf course is being hacked from the verdant jungle.
(7) Doubles from £56, B&B Hotel Solar das Águas Cantantes, Ubatuba, São Paulo Set in verdant grounds on a winding stretch of coast and backed by postcard-perfect peaks, this colonial affair offers 20 austere rooms wrapped around a leafy courtyard.
(8) Open late May to late September Oh Be Joyful Campground, Crested Butte Photograph: Alamy At the end of a hanging valley, Crested Butte is the quintessential Colorado mountain town, with verdant alpine meadows stretching impossibly upward to serrated peaks all around.
(9) The snow lay thick and the shack was deserted when Mack arrived, but he blinked and suddenly it was spring and the forest was covered with verdant greens.
(10) It was a place of economic prowess and leisure and hi-tech industry, where happy residents strolled through verdant parks or raced across the city’s lake in speedboats.
(11) Despite Australians’ sentimental and cultural attachment to those vast expanses of uninhabited outback, stock runs, russet fields and verdant crop lines that we romantically generalise as “the bush”, Australians have always predominantly been most comfortable dwelling and working on the coastal, urban plains where most big cities and centres are.
(12) Unlike Kenya's Rift valley, the land here is lush and verdant.
(13) A sample choripán cubano of coarse chorizo grilled with tangy, verdant chimichurri , offered several layers of texture and flavour.
(14) Stand in the upper Yubari valley and gaze up at the verdant hillsides now and it is hard to imagine they were once covered with sooty tenements.
(15) Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the term is being used to describe a vast range of jobs, some of which could probably be better described as brackish-brown than verdant green.
(16) At the Saint Symphorien War Cemetery , 2km east of Mons, German and British soldiers are buried together in a beautiful verdant setting.
(17) But like many whose physical geography is largely a collection of glib, lazy and largely wrong assumptions, I can't help noticing that said pitch would seem to be the only thing in the Amazon rainforest that isn't lush and verdant.
(18) In the writer's comfortable office with its massive telly, clutter of family life and view of verdant garden, she tells me that when her youngest son was tiny – she has two, both now in their mid-teens – someone chased and tried to attack him in the park.
(19) So why not concrete over one of the capital’s verdant bits of greenery (Hyde Park would do, but whichever you like – just ignore the carping of locals like me), cover it in new homes, and use the money made to give Manchester the lung it so desperately needs?
(20) • Reliant on nature pictures Most pernicious, perhaps, are attempts to green products by association, such as cars driving through verdant meadows.
Verdured
Definition:
(a.) Covered with verdure.
Example Sentences:
(1) A procedure for the production of biologically active substances from pine and spruce needles was worked out within the research project Utilization of Tree Verdure.
(2) The physiologic state of residents, looking for recreation in these places, was better in an environment of ample verdure.