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The amateur botanist Allison Baird manages this verdurous showcase of botanical illustrations of our 50th state’s species — all captioned with both their Latin and Hawaiian names.

I puréed the soup and tasted a rich, verdurous spoonful, humming with pleasure at the way it coated my tongue.

And up to a million worms, collected as one, become a verdurous mat, bathing like a beach blanket beneath the sun.

Verdurous tangles of vines topple over sagging backyard fences and spill out into the alley, where the former Cranbrook assistant curator steps gingerly as she walks to her friend Minara Begum’s house.

They could see the river winding along between its verdurous banks, and when they lost sight of the shining water they could still trace its course by the fresher green of the vegetation.