verdantEnglishOxford English Thesaurusverdant adjective the verdant forests of southern Vermont: green, leafy, grassy, grass-covered; lush, rich, flourishing, thriving, teeming, prolific, rampant, overgrown, dense, thick, jungle-like; informal jungly; rare verdurous, viridescent, virid, graminaceous, gramineous.verdant Oxford Dictionary of English