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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Characterized by rich or profuse growth.
  2. adj. Producing or yielding in abundance. See Synonyms at profuse.
  3. adj. Excessively florid or elaborate.
  4. adj. Marked by or displaying luxury; luxurious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Exuberant in growth; abundant: as, luxuriant foliage.
  2. Exuberant in quantity; superfluous in abundance.
  3. Supplied in great abundance; replete.
  4. In botany, having the floral envelop so multiplied as to destroy the essential parts: said of a flower: opposed to mutilated. Synonyms and Luxurious, Luxuriant. See luxurious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Abundant in growth or detail.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant
  2. adj. Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; -- of soil.
  3. adj. Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details; unrestrained; -- of imagery or ornamentation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail
  2. adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  3. adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance

Etymologies

  1. Latin luxuriāns, luxuriant-, present participle of luxuriāre, to be luxuriant; see luxuriate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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