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luxuriant adjective [ lʌɡˈʒʊərɪənt ]

• (of vegetation) rich and profuse in growth; lush.
• "forests of dark, luxuriant foliage"
Similar: lush, rich, abundant, superabundant, profuse, exuberant, prolific, teeming, flourishing, fecund, thriving, vigorous, riotous, dense, thick, rank, rampant, overgrown, verdant, green, jungly,
Opposite: barren, meagre, sparse,
Origin: mid 16th century: from Latin luxuriant- ‘growing rankly’, from the verb luxuriare, from luxuria ‘luxury, rankness’.


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