All 6 Uses
luxuriant
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- I got out several cords of stumps in plowing, which supplied me with fuel for a long time, and left small circles of virgin mould, easily distinguishable through the summer by the greater luxuriance of the beans there.†
Chpt 1 *
- The sumach (Rhus glabra) grew luxuriantly about the house, pushing up through the embankment which I had made, and growing five or six feet the first season.†
Chpt 4
- The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature?†
Chpt 9
- It is now filled with the smooth sumach (Rhus glabra), and one of the earliest species of goldenrod (Solidago stricta) grows there luxuriantly.†
Chpt 14
- When I see on the one side the inert bank—for the sun acts on one side first—and on the other this luxuriant foliage, the creation of an hour, I am affected as if in a peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me—had come to where he was still at work, sporting on this bank, and with excess of energy strewing his fresh designs about.†
Chpt 17
- This phenomenon is more exhilarating to me than the luxuriance and fertility of vineyards.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(luxuriant) characterized by growing well or being richly thick or abundant -- as of vegetation or hair
or (more rarely):
characterized by luxury (very comfortable or extravagant) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)