vert

Meanings

Noun

• A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
• Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
• The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
• In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
• A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
• vertebrate

Adjective

• In blazon, of the colour green.

Origin

• From Middle English vert, from Old French vert, from Latin viridis. virid.
• Abbreviation of vertical
• Abbreviation of vertebrate
• From Latin vertere
• Turn.