Definitions for vertvɜrt

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

vertvɜrt(n.)

  1. the heraldic color green.

    Category: Heraldry

  2. Archaic. the green leaves of forest vegetation, serving as food and cover for deer. the right to cut the green wood of such vegetation.

    Category: Law

Origin of vert:

1400–50; late ME verte < AF, MF vert, verd < L viridis green =vir(ēre) to be green

vert.

  1. vertical.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vert(noun)

    everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer

  2. Vert(noun)

    the right or privilege of cutting growing wood

  3. Vert(noun)

    the color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right


Translations for vert

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

green(adjective)

of the colour of growing grass or the leaves of most plants

a green hat.

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