vert

noun

1. English Forest Law.
   1. vegetation bearing green leaves in a forest and capable of serving as a cover for deer.
   2. the right to cut such vegetation.
2. Heraldry. the tincture, or color, green.

adjective

3. Heraldry. of the tincture green: a lion vert.

1. vertical.

noun

1. English legal history
   1. the right to cut green wood in a forest
   2. the wood itself
2. heraldry
   1. the colour green
   2. (as adjective, usually postpositive)a table vert

abbreviation for

1. vertical

n.

mid-15c., from Anglo-French, Old French vert, from Latin viridem, viridis “green” (see verdure).

v.

“to turn in some direction,” 1570s, from Latin vertere (see versus).