It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 5th.

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Today's word is verdant, spelled V-E-R-D-A-N-T. Verdant is an adjective. It describes something that is

green in tint or color, or green because it's covered with growing plants.

Verdant can also describe a person who is inexperienced or has not yet developed good judgment.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Front Street, Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Tecklandia by Brian Barth.

On the other side, the lusher Santa Cruz Mountains,

a place of dank redwood forests,

organic farming communes, and uppity vineyards,

form a verdant curtain between the valley and the ocean.

English speakers have been using the word verdant as a ripe synonym of green

since at least the 16th century, and as a descriptive term for inexperienced or naive people

since the 19th century.

By contrast, the more experienced word green has colored our language since well before the 12th century,

and was first applied to inexperienced people in the 16th century.

Verdant traces back to the old French word for green, verre, which itself is from the Latin word,

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