she...soon returned with a volume, verdantly bound, and garnished with a curious frontispiece in green,--nothing less, than a fragment of real moss cunningly pressed to a fly-leaf.
If you describe a place as verdant, you mean that it is covered with green grass, trees, and plants. a small verdant garden with a view out over Paris. = lush. verdant land is thickly covered with fresh green plants (verdeant, present participle of verdoier , from verd, vert )