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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Luxuriant \Lux*u"ri*ant\, adjective [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare: cf. F. luxuriant. See {Luxuriate}.]
1. Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.
Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. --Pope.
2. Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; -- of soil. [PJC]
3. Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details; unrestrained; -- of imagery or ornamentation. [PJC]
{Luxuriant flower} (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
luxuriant
adjective
1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern" [syn: {elaborate}]
2: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {profuse}, {riotous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "luxuriant": abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arabesque, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, busy, chichi, colored, copious, creative, decorated, deluxe, dense, diffuse, effuse, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fat, fecund, fertile, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, flashy, florid, flourishing, flowery, flush, frilly, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fussy, galore, garish, gaudy, generous, gross, heavy, high-wrought, impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jungled, jungly, labored, lavish, liberal, luscious, lush, luxurious, many, maximal, moresque, much, numerous, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overcharged, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overflowing, overgrown, overlabored, overloaded, overrun, overworked, overwrought, palatial, picturesque, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plush, pregnant, pretty-pretty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, purple, rampant, rank, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rococo, running over, seminal, showy, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unweeded, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale
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