Verdurate

Verdurate: verb. To verdurate is to turn green, whether this change is permanent, temporary or moderately temperate. Verduration is quite common in plants during early stages of growth and spring, and also in some species of tree frogs which gain their bright green colour as time progresses. Contrary to popular belief, simply painting something green cannot be classified as verduration - this process requires chemical change, meaning that even some types of oxidising metals could be termed as verdurating. Verduration is no less common in humans than it is in plants - some would even say that it is more so, as people have been known to verdurate when sick, jealous, disgusted, frightened or when suffering from rare skin diseases. Though mostly impermanent, these examples of verduration are so common that some have forgotten that the word verdurate can also be used in connection to plants and metals.  

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He missed. It is not surprising though that he failed at disposing of the hambourgeisie with his invention. The fact is that the scientist was a nerb with modern technology, which was quite the disadvantage in school as his name was coincidentally Herb and other children would always call him "Herb the nerb." No wonder he took an immediate dislike to the hambourgeoisie - their delicately patterned bread seeds on their deliciously baked crusts filled Herb with verdurating envy because of the knowledge that he could never be as legsome as this wonderful societal class. It was in his failure that he realised what he had stowed away in his brain a long time ago - he wasn´t nartured to become a scientist. Nor was he nartured to even be named Herb. How often had he asked himself if his name couldn´t have been Nettle or Bush or Tree... or even Fungus! But to no avail. After all, some questions aren´t meant to be answered (which in Herb´s case was very true as there was no one to answer it for him - his parents died in an unfortunate accident involving several infuriated aggronauts and a stolen snuffin).