greenth
English edit
Etymology edit
From green + -th. Cognate with Dutch groente.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
greenth (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being green.
- 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 30, in Daniel Deronda, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- Imagine a rambling, patchy house, […] the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter […]
- 1897, Mary Elizabeth Parsons, The Wild Flowers of California, page 38:
- A large part of the forest growth on the northern slopes of Mt. Tamalpais is composed of it; and as it is an evergreen, it forms a mountain wall of delightful and refreshing greenth the year around.
References edit
- “greenth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.