as in vegetation
green leaves or plants
Scottish highlands covered with lush greenery
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Recent Examples of greenery
The property is surrounded by greenery, and is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Hollywood sign, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and more.
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Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025
Sky Meadow Country Club, nestled against sprawling greenery at the highest peak of Nashua, New Hampshire, boasts a beautiful backdrop for recreation and special occasions – a golf course, ballroom, fine-dining restaurant, patio, bar and more.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Onassis’ longtime butler, Efigenio Pinheiro, arranged the greenery in the church's altar area.
—Aaron Parsley, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
The Mission Revival-style building in Santa Ana sits in an unlikely looking neighborhood of commercial businesses and industrial buildings, but it’s surrounded by greenery and inviting courtyards at both entrances.
—Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
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Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025
Sky Meadow Country Club, nestled against sprawling greenery at the highest peak of Nashua, New Hampshire, boasts a beautiful backdrop for recreation and special occasions – a golf course, ballroom, fine-dining restaurant, patio, bar and more.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Onassis’ longtime butler, Efigenio Pinheiro, arranged the greenery in the church's altar area.
—Aaron Parsley, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
The Mission Revival-style building in Santa Ana sits in an unlikely looking neighborhood of commercial businesses and industrial buildings, but it’s surrounded by greenery and inviting courtyards at both entrances.
—Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenery
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The researchers, from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, were field-testing a new approach to biodiversity monitoring, in this case to map insect life across different kinds of vegetation.—
Marion Renault,
The Atlantic,
29 Sep. 2025
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Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Branson, Missouri The fall foliage puts on just as much of a show as any of the performers in Branson, a perennial favorite among Midwest family vacation destinations.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Peak foliage usually arrives from mid-October through mid-November, making this one of the best fall drives in the South.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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In her final article for TIME, in 2021, Goodall took up the cause not of fauna, but flora, writing about the devastating consequences the planet could suffer as millions of acres of trees are cut, razed, and burned every year.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Words and images attest to the remarkable swiftness with which salmon have resumed their run, flora have blossomed, and traces of the former reservoir are being smoothed away.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Greenery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenery. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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