luxuriant 
luxuriant
Definition
luxu·ri·ant (lug z̸ho̵or′ē ənt, luk s̸ho̵or′-)
adjective
- Rare very productive; fertile luxuriant soil
- growing with vigor and in great abundance; lush; teeming
- characterized by richness and extravagance, as in ornamentation, invention, etc. often tending to excess a luxuriant imagination
- luxurious
Etymology: L luxurians, prp. of luxuriare: see luxuriate
luxu′·ri·ance noun or luxu′·ri·ancy
luxu′·ri·antly adverb
luxuriant
Synonyms
luxuriant
modif.
luxuriant
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- vegetation: Nothing can be more striking than the effect of these huge rounded masses of naked rock rising out of the most luxuriant vegetation.
- foliage: All bedrooms have a terrace or balcony and face the sea, although the luxuriant foliage of the trees can obscure sea views.
- forest: Within a few short years, brown eroded hills have replaced luxuriant forests in many parts of the country.
- growth: Then suddenly through a polygon of green, in the half darkness under the luxuriant growth, I saw the creature we were hunting.
- valley: He wrote ' in the richest pastures of this luxuriant valley stands the old town of Lostwithiel ' .
- garden: You arrive at this beautiful hotel, the best on the holiday, through its luxuriant gardens.
Modifying Another Word
- very: At the time of which we write, the vegetation of the isle was not very luxuriant.
- particularly: North portal of Shrewley Tunnel was particularly luxuriant, due to the large amount of water about.
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