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s | virid |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun virid is

(rare) a virid colour or virid can be (usually|in plural) any of a group of related viruses.

As an adjective virid is

green, verdant.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    virid

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) viridis, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A virid 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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  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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 , , 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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in plural) Any of a group of related viruses.