• Overgreen

    Origin

    - + over + green

    Full definition of overgreen

    Verb

    1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with greenery or green colour.
      • 1928, Geoffrey Johnson, Mad Echo... all the rocks and roots
        With olden film were overgreened; the pool,
        Broadened from falling water, sparkled with fires
        Of shafted crystal, and the sounding drops
        Splintered their fleeting pearl against the stone.
      • 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost WorldsThe door itself, wrought of a swarthy bronze all overgreened by time, stood slightly ajar.
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