Luxuriant
[lʌg'ʒʊərɪənt;lʌg'zjʊə-;lʌk'sjʊə-] or [lʌɡ'ʒʊrɪənt]
Definition
(a.) Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Exuberant, profuse, superabundant, plentiful, plenteous.
Typist: Malcolm
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXUBERANT]
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Examples
- The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Once on such an occasion Caroline had said to him, looking up from the luxuriant creeper she was binding to its frame, Ah! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Her imagination was luxuriant, yet her capability of application was great. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Coal is largely formed from vast masses of vegetable matter deposited through the luxuriant growth of plants in former epochs of the earth’s history. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The race from which they sprang were crowned with a luxuriant growth of golden hair, but for many ages the present race has been entirely bald. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Amidst this luxuriant primitive vegetation crawled and glided and flew the first insects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are plenty of dwarfs all over Italy, but it did seem to me that in Milan the crop was luxuriant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She has the same soft, dark eye, with longer lashes, and her curling hair is of a luxuriant brown. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chestnut. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mingled grass and corn grew in her plains, the unpruned vines threw their luxuriant branches around the elms. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Therefore she did as she was told, and did it with such nervous hands that her hair (which was luxuriant and beautiful) fell all about her face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Margaret tried to rise, and drew her ruffled, luxuriant hair instinctly over the cut. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This, indeed, is far from England; remote must be the shores which wear that wild, luxuriant aspect. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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