luxuriant

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/, /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.ənt/, /ləɡ-/, /-ɔːɹi.ənt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləɡˈʒʊɹi.ənt/, /ləkˈʃʊɹi.ənt/, /-ɝi.ənt/

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.

   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     in the midst of luxuriant gardens

• luxury
• luxurious

• IPA^(key): /lyk.sy.ʁjɑ̃/

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• Homophone: luxuriants

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

1. luxuriant

• “luxuriant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

lū̆xuriant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lū̆xuriō

Borrowed from French luxuriant, from Latin luxurians.

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

1. lush