Feminine

verdura

Meaning

  1. (feminine, uncountable) greenness (state or quality of being green)
  2. (feminine, uncountable) unripeness (state or quality of being unripe)
  3. (feminine, in-plural) vegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it, excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense)

Opposite of
madureza
Pronounced as (IPA)
/veʁˈdu.ɾɐ/
Etymology

From verde (“green”) + -ura (“-ness”), with the first element from Old Galician-Portuguese verde, from Latin viridis (“green”). Alternately, from Vulgar Latin *virdūra.

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