Luxuriant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Luxuriant \Lux*u"ri*ant\, a. [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare:
     cf. F. luxuriant. See {Luxuriate}.]
     1. Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very
        abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant
        foliage.
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              Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. --Pope.
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     2. Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; -- of soil.
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     3. Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details;
        unrestrained; -- of imagery or ornamentation.
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     {Luxuriant flower} (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes
        are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  luxuriant
       adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate
              lace pattern" [syn: {elaborate}]
       2: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
          blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {profuse}, {riotous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "luxuriant":
     abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample,
     aplenty, arabesque, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bottomless,
     bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, busy, chichi,
     colored, copious, creative, decorated, deluxe, dense, diffuse,
     effuse, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, epidemic,
     exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fat, fecund, fertile,
     festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, flashy, florid,
     flourishing, flowery, flush, frilly, fructiferous, fruitful, full,
     fussy, galore, garish, gaudy, generous, gross, heavy, high-wrought,
     impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jungled,
     jungly, labored, lavish, liberal, luscious, lush, luxurious, many,
     maximal, moresque, much, numerous, opulent, ornate, ostentatious,
     overcharged, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overflowing,
     overgrown, overlabored, overloaded, overrun, overworked,
     overwrought, palatial, picturesque, plenitudinous, plenteous,
     plentiful, plenty, plush, pregnant, pretty-pretty, prevailing,
     prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous,
     prolific, purple, rampant, rank, replete, rich, rife, riotous,
     rococo, running over, seminal, showy, sumptuous, superabundant,
     swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unweeded, wealthy,
     weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished,
     well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale