Lewis Short
vĭrectum | vĭrētum (noun N) : (less correctly ), , vireo
* A place overgrown with grass, a green place, greensward, sod, turf: viretum, ἀνθῶν τόπος, Gloss.; mostly in plur.: virecta nemorum,Verg. A. 6, 638: amoena virecta, of Paradise,Prud. Cath. 3, 101: latissima, Apol. M. 4, p. 143, 2: patentia,id. ib. 8, p. 209 fin.; 10, p. 263, 24.
* Transf., greenness, in gen.: Scythidis (i. e. smaragdi),Mart. Cap. 1, § 67.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary