Luxuriant Definition

lŭg-zho͝orē-ənt, lŭk-sho͝or-
adjective
Characterized by rich or profuse growth.
A luxuriant garden; luxuriant hair.
American Heritage
Very productive; fertile.
Luxuriant soil.
Webster's New World
Growing with vigor and in great abundance; lush; teeming.
Webster's New World
Rich and elaborate, as in decoration.
American Heritage
Characterized by richness and extravagance, as in ornamentation, invention, etc., often tending to excess.
A luxuriant imagination.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Luxuriant

  • Latin luxuriāns luxuriant- present participle of luxuriāre to be luxuriant luxuriate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Luxuriant Sentence Examples

  • Vegetation is generally luxuriant, and forest clothes portions of the mountain slopes.

  • They are now overgrown with luxuriant vegetation.

  • Some of the volcanic soil is barren, but much of the district is clothed in luxuriant vegetation.

  • In the time of the Arabs these were the chief canals, and the cuts from the main channels of the Nahr `Isa, Nahr Sarsar, Nahr Malk (or Nahr Malcha), and Nahr Kutha, reticulating the entire country between the rivers, converted it into a continuous and luxuriant garden.

  • If these be too luxuriant, they yield nothing but leaves; and if too weak, they are incapable of developing flower buds.

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