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adjective

Luxuriant adj.

Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. "Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine."

Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; of soil.

Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details; unrestrained; of imagery or ornamentation.

Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

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Etymology of 'Luxuriant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Luxuriant" Quotes from Famous Books

... add, reasonable incredulity. I have lately seen one of Correggio's finest pictures, in which the three Furies are represented, not as ghastly deformed hags, with talons and torches, and snaky hair, but as young women, with fine luxuriant forms and regular features, and a single serpent wreathing the tresses like a bandeau—but such countenances!—such a hideous expression of malice, cunning, and cruelty!—and the effect is beyond conception appalling. ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

... looked like a woman of another race. She was much taller, and her full, luxuriant young figure looked tropical beside Rose's slender one. Her body undulated as she walked, but Rose moved only with forward ...

— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... rides, walks, and excursions on the water, both found ample scope for the indulgence of their partiality for flowers, in the taste for practical horticulture possessed by Ronayne, under whose care had grown the luxuriant beauty which every where pervaded the little garden, and made it to the grateful girl ...

— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson

... was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this odd request, if she had any disposition to do so. Therefore she did as she was told, and did it with such nervous hands that her hair (which was luxuriant and beautiful) fell all about ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... you see the Sea of Marmora and the Princess Islands, and on the other the glorious Mount Olympus, whose snow-clad peak rises above a broad girdle of clouds. The flowering vineyards filled the air with rich scent, assisted by caprifolium blossoms in luxuriant growth, and a yellow flower the name of which I do ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

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