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Definition

very desirable

in various senses, including:

delicious — especially sweet and juicy — as in "a luscious peach"
pleasing or delightful — as in "the luscious scenery"
sexually appealing — as in "Can you introduce me to that luscious woman in the skimpy bikini?"

a bowl of luscious-looking peaches

luscious = very desirable

a luscious girl with luscious lips
The book is filled with luscious landscape photographs.
For who could hate or bear a grudge
Against a luscious bit of fudge?
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

luscious = delicious

Chocolate is ... brown and luscious!
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

luscious = very desirable

It was a clear little stream which ran quite merrily along on its narrow way through the luscious damp greenness.
Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
Yes, buy them, by all means; and may the peaches be luscious in your mouth, Judge Pyncheon!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan
If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
The cheeses hardening at the edges, the sulfur-drenched grapes, luscious and shiny as wax, plumped with blood from the dying field workers of California.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
He spotted a harp in one corner, a loom in another, and a big cooking pot where the stew was bubbling, filling the cavern with luscious smells.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
She took the prescription and gave him one last, luscious smile.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
In the early days when I looked on Lois as merely the luscious machine, I had allowed certain scarcely perceptible changes to be made in my appearance.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
My suffering was increased by my certainty that no tomato would ever let her luscious bosom heave against my chest.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Her cheeks were hollow and her mouth small, not luscious, more like a slit drawn hastily with a marker or a child's crayon.
Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
See you tonight, luscious.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
I imagined greenwheat and cornfields spreading over the mountainsides, luscious fruits hanging down from the branches of the trees.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
They freeze and hang, beautifully red and luscious-looking, for the whole winter—the color truly is wonderful against the snow.
Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
Grapes, plums, pears, melons were ripe and luscious.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert

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