Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Heraldry The color green.
- noun Green vegetation serving as cover or food for deer. Used in English forest law.
- noun The right to cut such vegetation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn: noting the movements of the eyeball.
- An abbreviation of Vertebrata
- of vertebrate.
- To become a “vert”; leave the Church of England for the Roman communion, or vice versa.
- noun In English forest law, everything within a forest bearing a green leaf which may serve as a cover for deer, but especially great and thick coverts; also, a power to cut green trees or wood.
- noun In heraldry, the tincture green. It is represented by diagonal lines from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Abbreviated verb
- noun One who leaves one church for another; a convert or pervert, according as the action is viewed by members of the church joined or members of the church abandoned: said especially of persons who go from the Church of England to the Church of Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest.
- noun The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
- noun (Her.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving bydiagonal parallel lines 45 degreescounter-clockwise . - noun archaic Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for
deer . - noun archaic The right to fell
trees or cut shrubs in a forest. - adjective heraldry In
blazon , of the colour green. - abbreviation
vertebrate - abbreviation
vertical - noun colloquial In
sport , a type ofbicycle stunt competition . - noun A
vertical surface used byskateboarders orskiers .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Vervets got their name from the French word vert, which means green, because the soft, dense fur on their backs has a greenish hue, which contrasts with their pale yellow or white underparts and black faces, hands, and feet.
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