luscious

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  1. adjective Sweet and pleasant to taste or smell: a luscious melon. See Synonyms at delicious.
  2. adjective Having strong sensual or sexual appeal; seductive.
  3. adjective Richly appealing to the senses or the mind: a luscious, vivid description.
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  • It's really luscious, and you'd better finish yours before it gets cold Obediently, Kit ate. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 04 - April 2007 (v1.0) [html]
  • But I really do like showcasing rhubarb as a luscious "fruit" not to be upstaged by that perky juicy red berry. —  WordPress.com News
  • Mine were a tad on the salty side, but they were almost creamily luscious, and the giant scoop of sour cream was more than enough to cut through the sodium.
  • Stevenson's sculpting skills are best seen in the photos of her luscious-looking layered cakes, where the variations in textures are so well captured. —  Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
  • I also knew that "my kind" of black-luscious dark chocolate-was not valued one iota. —  Pop + Politics
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juicy ·  succulent ·  delicious ·  lush ·  savory ·  ripe ·  creamy ·  tempt ·  voluptuous ·  lovely ·  delectable ·  plump
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English lucius, alteration of licious, perhaps short for delicious, delicious; see delicious.

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  1. Early modern English lushious (in this form apparently irreg. from lush + -ious), also lussyouse (Palsgrave), i. e. *lussious, as if orig. *lustious, from lusty, pleasant, delicious, + -ous; the word, thus provided with a suffix, assuming a more distinctive L. form and spelling. But the formation is uncertain. The conjectured derivation from delicious and that from luxurious are both improbable. Cf. lush , a., 3.
 

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