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单词 luxuriant
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Definition of luxuriant in English:

luxuriant

adjective lʌɡˈzjʊərɪəntlʌɡˈʒʊərɪəntlʌkˈsjʊərɪənt
  • 1(of vegetation) rich and profuse in growth; lush.

    (植物)茂盛的;郁郁葱葱的

    forests of dark, luxuriant foliage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have absolutely no fresh food in the house… except if you count the luxuriant growth of mould on an avocado I left in the fruitbowl.
    • Such little strips of open land would seem very mean in other latitudes, but at the equator, where there is vertical sun and luxuriant vegetation, they can work and be pleasant to look into, if not be in.
    • The bush in this area grows in luxuriant profusion, even on the high rocks off the coast.
    • The village is noted for the colours of its villas and their roofs, luxuriant foliage, the beauty of the surrounding mountains and the blue of the water and sky.
    • After descending from Almora the road winds its way mostly along the valley and we had the constant companionship of lush green paddy fields, luxuriant vegetation all around and an occasional rivulet.
    • Air-vehicles were fluently moving above ziggurats submerged in the luxuriant greenery.
    • Though the centre is not immune from horn blare and tyre screech, a tranquillity hangs in the air, nurtured by luxuriant greenery and birdsong.
    • The driver examined the damage caused to the car, while Hubert and his Phaedran friends chatted with us by a hedge delimiting a field of mastodon grazing on tall luxuriant grass.
    • They emerge from the luxuriant foliage like lost Mayan temples.
    • Its still surface is pictured with dainty reflections of boats and grassy banks and luxuriant foliage.
    • Christmas trees are essentially a foliage crop, and luxuriant foliage with good color is a definite asset when trees are sold.
    • In the summertime, elk come to nibble on the luxuriant grasses that grow on my living roof.
    • This ancient woodland is nothing like a typical rainforest, which has a lush canopy, a luxuriant understory, and a permanently shaded, relatively open forest floor.
    • Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species.
    • Its tropical gardens are full of rare, luxuriant vegetation and exotic fragrance.
    • There is usually a current running here, but the same thing that makes diving slightly uncomfortable encourages luxuriant coral growth and teeming numbers of small fish.
    • And luxuriant foliage is no longer just apple green but ranges from purplish blue to green splashed with white.
    • It also seems to sport a luxuriant growth of something akin to a virulent mould.
    • And luxuriant greenery is a magnet for local wildlife in the dry, so station gardens also require considerable fortification to discourage pigs and wallabies from making damaging incursions.
    • Wilting shrubs spring back to life and luxuriant grass begins to sprout in the open spaces, even as flower buds burst into blossoms of loveliness.
    Synonyms
    lush, rich, abundant, superabundant, profuse, exuberant, prolific, teeming, flourishing, fecund, thriving, vigorous, riotous
    dense, thick, rank, rampant, overgrown
    verdant, green
    informal jungly
    1. 1.1 (of hair) thick and healthy.
      (头发)浓密的
      she tossed her luxuriant dark hair
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Erica, in a dark blue silk dressing-gown and fluffy slippers, her luxuriant hair being disheveled, flew into the room like a hurricane.
      • Her failed vision of herself, though men almost unfailingly found her beautiful, was of ‘a smaller, elegant creature with luxuriant auburn hair, sea-green eyes and a dazzling white skin’.
      • Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
      • But oh, he was a handsome man, with hair as curly and luxuriant as that of Will's beautiful maid, and dark blue eyes that matched the color of the ocean in Brighton.
      • Rebecca's eyes were clear and blue, the color of the ocean at Brighton beach, her hair thick, luxuriant, plentiful, and curly, spilling down her back in exotic curls.
      • The gift of the kings from the coastal regions was thousands of exquisite young girls from the Karpasika country, all slender-waisted, of luxuriant hair, decked in gold.
      • Suddenly Mrs Brown catches sight of Florence's head of luxuriant hair under her bonnet and is gripped by the lust to clip the tresses off and sell them.
      • Hair is full, luxuriant and bursting with healthy vitality.
      • Many women enjoy more luxuriant hair later in pregnancy.
      • Pitt's ‘garbage’, along with his face and his body - the torqued biceps, the luxuriant hair - is his fortune, and the producers of Troy are hoping that it will be theirs, also.
      • His skin was still so pale as to be painful to her eyes, and clashed dramatically with his beautiful dark hair, long and luxuriant in the sunlight, and boyishly disheveled.
      • Britain needs more men with luxuriant heads of hair.
      • According to the story, the male spectator in this illustration should be the third Jew's son, but with his full beard and luxuriant head of hair he looks far more like a Jewish patriarch than a rebel.
      • The new prisoner had luxuriant fox-red hair and hot blue eyes, and the dead-white complexion of extreme drunken anger.
      • The lady on the left had long, dark luxuriant hair, full lips and eyes like black olives; on her head perched a jewelled coronet.
      • On view until May 6, the exhibit examines his richly colored Pre-Raphaelite portraits of women blessed with cupid's bow lips, luxuriant hair and deep, hooded eyes.
      • Roxanne sighed as she twisted her luxuriant dark brown hair into a knot at the back of her head.
      • The Donald himself sports a luxuriant mane of reddish hair that seems to spring not just out of his pate but also out of his brow, where it almost merges with his wildly profuse eyebrows.
      • Do luxuriant facial hair and expert knowledge of complex function theory go together?
      • As Betty tenderly uncovers the wound beneath Rita's luxuriant hair, we know she's already in too deep for her own good.
      Synonyms
      thick, shaggy, unruly, fuzzy, rough, bristling, bristly, fluffy, woolly, exuberant, spreading

Derivatives

  • luxuriance

  • noun lʌɡˈʒʊərɪəns
    • But if we were giving out points for quality and luxuriance of mullet hairstyle, William Wallace - or Mad McMax as he must surely be called - would walk it.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Often omitted by traditionalists who may not be able to afford them, they are mandatory for Nazarites and lend to the Church umutsha its distinctive luxuriance.
      • In spite of its smoky luxuriance and organic contours, the album's architecture is a snakes-and-ladders affair of telescoping hallways, spiral staircases and dim-lit chambers of unclear dimensions.
      • Much to our astonishment, the Palm Cove was lovely, a purpose-built village inserted with care into a stretch of tropical luxuriance beside a curving bay.
      • Their bizarre distance from reality, their twisted imputations of malignity, their excess, their luxuriance in defamation and falsehood, are obviously symptomatic.
  • luxuriantly

  • adverblʌɡˈʒʊərɪəntli
    • The steamy air ensures that they grow luxuriantly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The creek is completely green, overwhelmingly green, riotously & luxuriantly green; all this rain has one salutary benefit.
      • The kafta sandwich is a mixture of ground beef patties, peas and onions, which are luxuriantly sprawled over the bread like drunk nobility on a dirty ballroom floor.
      • Sometimes it moves as slowly and luxuriantly as treacle, other times it slips through your fingers.
      • Dampened or disciplined by the Cold War, such conflicts flowered luxuriantly after 1991.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin luxuriant- 'growing rankly', from the verb luxuriare, from luxuria 'luxury, rankness'.

Rhymes

esurient, parturient, prurient

Definition of luxuriant in US English:

luxuriant

adjective
  • 1(of vegetation) rich and profuse in growth; lush.

    (植物)茂盛的;郁郁葱葱的

    forests of dark, luxuriant foliage
    figurative luxuriant prose
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bush in this area grows in luxuriant profusion, even on the high rocks off the coast.
    • The village is noted for the colours of its villas and their roofs, luxuriant foliage, the beauty of the surrounding mountains and the blue of the water and sky.
    • And luxuriant foliage is no longer just apple green but ranges from purplish blue to green splashed with white.
    • Though the centre is not immune from horn blare and tyre screech, a tranquillity hangs in the air, nurtured by luxuriant greenery and birdsong.
    • Its still surface is pictured with dainty reflections of boats and grassy banks and luxuriant foliage.
    • Christmas trees are essentially a foliage crop, and luxuriant foliage with good color is a definite asset when trees are sold.
    • Wilting shrubs spring back to life and luxuriant grass begins to sprout in the open spaces, even as flower buds burst into blossoms of loveliness.
    • We have absolutely no fresh food in the house… except if you count the luxuriant growth of mould on an avocado I left in the fruitbowl.
    • There is usually a current running here, but the same thing that makes diving slightly uncomfortable encourages luxuriant coral growth and teeming numbers of small fish.
    • After descending from Almora the road winds its way mostly along the valley and we had the constant companionship of lush green paddy fields, luxuriant vegetation all around and an occasional rivulet.
    • And luxuriant greenery is a magnet for local wildlife in the dry, so station gardens also require considerable fortification to discourage pigs and wallabies from making damaging incursions.
    • Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species.
    • The driver examined the damage caused to the car, while Hubert and his Phaedran friends chatted with us by a hedge delimiting a field of mastodon grazing on tall luxuriant grass.
    • This ancient woodland is nothing like a typical rainforest, which has a lush canopy, a luxuriant understory, and a permanently shaded, relatively open forest floor.
    • It also seems to sport a luxuriant growth of something akin to a virulent mould.
    • In the summertime, elk come to nibble on the luxuriant grasses that grow on my living roof.
    • Its tropical gardens are full of rare, luxuriant vegetation and exotic fragrance.
    • Air-vehicles were fluently moving above ziggurats submerged in the luxuriant greenery.
    • Such little strips of open land would seem very mean in other latitudes, but at the equator, where there is vertical sun and luxuriant vegetation, they can work and be pleasant to look into, if not be in.
    • They emerge from the luxuriant foliage like lost Mayan temples.
    Synonyms
    lush, rich, abundant, superabundant, profuse, exuberant, prolific, teeming, flourishing, fecund, thriving, vigorous, riotous
    1. 1.1 (of hair) thick and healthy.
      (头发)浓密的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many women enjoy more luxuriant hair later in pregnancy.
      • Do luxuriant facial hair and expert knowledge of complex function theory go together?
      • Britain needs more men with luxuriant heads of hair.
      • The Donald himself sports a luxuriant mane of reddish hair that seems to spring not just out of his pate but also out of his brow, where it almost merges with his wildly profuse eyebrows.
      • Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
      • Rebecca's eyes were clear and blue, the color of the ocean at Brighton beach, her hair thick, luxuriant, plentiful, and curly, spilling down her back in exotic curls.
      • As Betty tenderly uncovers the wound beneath Rita's luxuriant hair, we know she's already in too deep for her own good.
      • The new prisoner had luxuriant fox-red hair and hot blue eyes, and the dead-white complexion of extreme drunken anger.
      • His skin was still so pale as to be painful to her eyes, and clashed dramatically with his beautiful dark hair, long and luxuriant in the sunlight, and boyishly disheveled.
      • The gift of the kings from the coastal regions was thousands of exquisite young girls from the Karpasika country, all slender-waisted, of luxuriant hair, decked in gold.
      • Erica, in a dark blue silk dressing-gown and fluffy slippers, her luxuriant hair being disheveled, flew into the room like a hurricane.
      • But oh, he was a handsome man, with hair as curly and luxuriant as that of Will's beautiful maid, and dark blue eyes that matched the color of the ocean in Brighton.
      • Pitt's ‘garbage’, along with his face and his body - the torqued biceps, the luxuriant hair - is his fortune, and the producers of Troy are hoping that it will be theirs, also.
      • On view until May 6, the exhibit examines his richly colored Pre-Raphaelite portraits of women blessed with cupid's bow lips, luxuriant hair and deep, hooded eyes.
      • According to the story, the male spectator in this illustration should be the third Jew's son, but with his full beard and luxuriant head of hair he looks far more like a Jewish patriarch than a rebel.
      • Her failed vision of herself, though men almost unfailingly found her beautiful, was of ‘a smaller, elegant creature with luxuriant auburn hair, sea-green eyes and a dazzling white skin’.
      • Hair is full, luxuriant and bursting with healthy vitality.
      • Suddenly Mrs Brown catches sight of Florence's head of luxuriant hair under her bonnet and is gripped by the lust to clip the tresses off and sell them.
      • The lady on the left had long, dark luxuriant hair, full lips and eyes like black olives; on her head perched a jewelled coronet.
      • Roxanne sighed as she twisted her luxuriant dark brown hair into a knot at the back of her head.
      Synonyms
      thick, shaggy, unruly, fuzzy, rough, bristling, bristly, fluffy, woolly, exuberant, spreading

Usage

See luxurious

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin luxuriant- ‘growing rankly’, from the verb luxuriare, from luxuria ‘luxury, rankness’.

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