Today, you’re going to learn seven adjectives for plants in English. Most of these adjectives can be used to describe other things, as well.
Right now, Adrian and I are living with his mother, and there is a plant in her backyard that has captured my heart. In fact, it’s a weed! I don’t know what species it is, so I simply call it my “special weed.”
Every year, my special weed gets chopped down, and every year, it grows again! It’s a lush, verdant, mammoth, towering, robust, stubborn, resolute specimen of a weed! Before it gets chopped down this year, I wanted to do a short video as an “ode” to my special weed.
What is an ode?
My video isn’t a poem, but it is intended to show my admiration for my special weed, so I have used the word ‘ode’ here figuratively.
Watch this video to meet my special weed and to learn what each of these seven adjectives means. Once you’ve mastered them, try our quiz to test your comprehension and cement the words in your mind.
Related: How to Use Adjectives in English
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This is fantastic!!!
Thank you, Patricia! 🙂
The heart-shaped mammoth-leaved plant may be a Paulownia or a Catalpa. They seem to be hardly distinguishable – at least for a non-specialist.
(Haha, by the way, could this be a spark for a lesson about compound adjectives? I haven’t seen anything alike on YouTube, so far.)
PS Please correct
Thanks, Ena! I looked up both of those, and I think it might be a Paulownia 🙂
Good idea! I’ll definitely do something about compound adjectives in English. In the meantime, you might enjoy this post by Espresso English: https://www.espressoenglish.net/compound-adjectives-in-english/.
Take care!
Quick corrections:
…could this SPARK a lesson about compound adjectives? I haven’t seen anything LIKE THAT on YouTube…