Word of the Day: verdant

The word verdant has appeared in 128 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on July 5 in “In the Azores: Earth, Water, Fire and Air, Sometimes All at Once” by Amy Thomas:

Just beyond the gray-and-taupe ground surrounding the caldeiras, the landscape turned steep and verdant. Grená Park, a forested area with hiking trails, was once a private home in the 1800s. Over the years, it changed ownership and was eventually purchased by the Portuguese government in 1987 as a place to accommodate traveling officials, and then transferred to the local Azorean government in 2009. Despite all the movement, it remained largely abandoned until it was finally sold back to private owners who transformed the property into its current state.

After paying a fee and entering through a metal turnstile, we chose one of the three trails and started ascending through towering trees, past waterfalls and through fecund air. It felt almost like we were playing in a life-size board game made of trees: Paths were marked by slices of tree trunks, miniature garbage cans were constructed from logs, and wooden ladders guided us to different levels of the park. A dense canopy and moss crawling everywhere created a timeless atmosphere, though the park only opened in 2019.

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