0 covered with healthy green plants or grass:
Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.
Not very, would be the laconic reply for the majority of the population and, comparatively, the grass has become no more verdant since.
They have, indeed, turned the desert into flourishing gardens and rich verdant countries.
Outside the pastures were green and verdant; within, they were sparse.
It is an area of handsome small towns, attractive villages and deep verdant countryside.
It is possible that the future may prove it to be not so green and verdant, but for the moment we must take it as it is.
One can still see verdant green patches in certain valleys and one may get a slimpse of them in a sheltered bay running down to the sea.
The landscape that five years previously had been verdant tree cover had become a devastated wilderness, with a few bare stumps of trees in the middle.
Communists in this respect are like that harmless animal the rabbit, which spends half its life underground and half browsing on the verdant pasture outside.
