vert

Meanings

1. A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
2. Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
3. The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.

1. In blazon, of the colour green.

1. Abbreviation of vertical.

1. In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
2. A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

1. Vertebrate.

1. To turn.

1. Vertex.

Etymology

From Middle English vert, borrowed from Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Doublet of virid, which was borrowed directly from Latin.