luxuriant

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, past participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

luxuriant (comparative more luxuriant, superlative most luxuriant)

  1. Abundant in growth or detail.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 309–310:
      She wore a dress of azure blue velvet, with a deep border of gold; her luxuriant hair was put back from her brow in a style which no face but the most perfect could have borne, and was then gathered in a form like that of an ancient helmet, every plait glittering with diamonds: it was peculiar, but it suited her.
    • 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 7:
      Thus, to find luxuriant growths of seaweeds unaffected by man, one must go to the Channel Islands where pollution has not taken its toll.

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French

Pronunciation

Adjective

luxuriant (feminine luxuriante, masculine plural luxuriants, feminine plural luxuriantes)

  1. luxuriant

Further reading

Latin

Verb

lū̆xuriant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of lū̆xuriō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French luxuriant, from Latin luxurians.

Adjective

luxuriant m or n (feminine singular luxuriantă, masculine plural luxurianți, feminine and neuter plural luxuriante)

  1. lush

Declension

Declension of luxuriant
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite luxuriant luxuriantă luxurianți luxuriante
definite luxuriantul luxurianta luxurianții luxuriantele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite luxuriant luxuriante luxurianți luxuriante
definite luxuriantului luxuriantei luxurianților luxuriantelor
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