greenth

English

Etymology

From green +‎ -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Dutch groente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːnθ/
• Rhymes: -iːnθ

Noun

greenth (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being green.

   Synonyms: greenness, verdure, verdancy

   • 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 30, in Daniel Deronda, volume (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.

2. (agriculture) Green vegetation.

References

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