virent

From Latin virens, present participle of virere (“to be green”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪɹənt/

virent (comparative more virent, superlative most virent)

1. (obsolete) green in color, or unwithered
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the roots of Canes, Bryony and other plants: for in these yet fresh and virent

• “virent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Vinter, invert, ventri-

• IPA^(key): /viʁ/

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• Homophones: vire, vires

virent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of virer

virent

1. third-person plural past historic of voir

• revint, revînt, rivent, vernit, vernît

virent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vireō