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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

luxurians

, p. pr. of

luxuriare

: cf. F.

luxuriant

. See

Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant;

as, a

luxuriant

growth of grass;

luxuriant

foliage.

Prune the

luxuriant

, the uncouth refine.

Pope.

Luxuriant flower

(Bot.)

one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

, a.

Exuberant in growth; abundant; as a luxuriant growth of grass.

Exuberant in plenty; superfluous in abundance.

Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine.

A luxuriant flower multiplies the covers of the fructification so as to destroy the essential parts.