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Leaves vs Verdure - What's the difference?

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Leaves is a related term of verdure.


As nouns the difference between leaves and verdure

is that leaves is or leaves can be while verdure is the greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.

As a verb leaves

is (leave).

leaves

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (leave)

    • Statistics

    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    verdure

    English

    Noun

  • The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.
  • * 1610 , , by Shakespeare
    • [...] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
    • The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
  • *
    • To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
  • (hence) A condition of health and vigour.

    • Related terms

    * verdant * verdurous