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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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