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luxuriant

UK/lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/US/ləɡˈʒʊɹi.ənt/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,479 of 15,258leans written

Luxuriant means growing thickly and richly. Luxuriant growth, a luxuriant beard, luxuriant vegetation.

It is about abundance rather than expense, which is what separates it from luxurious, and the two are confused constantly. It belongs to hair and to vegetation above all.

Definitions of luxuriant

  1. 1adjectiveluxuriantGrowing thickly and richly.C1

    “She had long, luxuriant hair that fell to her waist.”

luxuriant is a quality.

Also accepted in games: lush

Where it comes from

Latin luxurians comes from luxuria, rankness or excess.

  1. Latin

    lūxuriāns

  2. English, today

    luxuriant

Built from

  • lūxuria · Latin — luxury, excess

Latin lūxuriāns, present participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”). Equivalent to luxury + ant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

luxuriant in the wild

  • The presence, and luxuriant carpet-like growth, of Cladonia species is one of the defining characters of grey dunes, a priority habitat for conservation under the E.U.

    Cladonia

  • Mineral-rich rock types such as diabase and limestone occur locally and the soils that have developed over them support some of the park's more luxuriant vegetation.

    Killarney Provincial Park

  • In summer, a healthy maple sugar bush is luxuriant and shady.

    Sugar bush

  • The Greek word thalia is an adjective applied to banquets, meaning rich, plentiful, luxuriant and abundant.

    Thalia (Grace)

  • One of the group, Green Island, is protected as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.108 because of its relatively luxuriant vegetation and large Antarctic shag colony.

    Berthelot Islands

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

the lūxuria family

luxuryluxurious

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