French: topographic name for someone who lived in a dense forest or
perhaps a copse of evergreens, from Old French bois ‘wood’ (see
Bois) + vert, verd ‘green’. This name is
sometimes translated as Greenwood.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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