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adj
In blazon, of the colour green.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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adj
Abbreviation of vertical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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noun
A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
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Usage: colloquial
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noun
A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
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noun
Vertebrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Vertex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To turn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
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History
From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Late Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.
Abbreviation of vertical.
Abbreviation of vertebrate.
Abbreviation of vertex.
From Latin vertere (“to turn, overturn”).
Across languages
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