luxuriant

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His book is like a tropical forest--luxuriant, bewildering, enormous--with the gayest humming-birds among the branches, and the vilest monsters in the entangled grass Saint-Simon, so far as the influence of his contemporaries was concerned, might have been living in the Middle Ages or the moon.

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  1. adjective Characterized by rich or profuse growth.
  2. adjective Producing or yielding in abundance. See Synonyms at profuse.
  3. adjective Excessively florid or elaborate.

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  • Had I been cast on a luxuriant island, growing fruits and flowers, and inhabited at least by animals—how different would it have been! —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • Madame Pfeiffer had always imagined that the trees in virgin forests had very thick and lofty trunks; but such was not the case here; probably because the vegetation was too luxuriant, and the larger trunks have the life crushed out of them by masses of smaller trees, bushes, creepers, and parasites. —  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer
  • Eggs we had in abundance from the chickens and ducks we had brought with us, and which had scarcely ceased laying since we arrived, so much did they thrive in this luxuriant island. —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
  • They were almost too luxuriant, approaching to rankness Day after day passed by and we were still alone. —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
  • In front of Widow Hotchkiss's cottage the trees were unusually luxuriant, and the boughs hung unusually low. —  Aunt Rachel
 

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  1. Latin luxuriāns, luxuriant-, present participle of luxuriāre, to be luxuriant; see luxuriate.

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  1. = French luxuriant = Spanish lujuriante = Portuguese luxuriante = Italian lussuriante, from Latin luxurian (t-)s, present participle of luxuriare, be rank or luxuriant: see luxuriate.
 

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/ləgˈʒjurɪənt/
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