All 3 Uses
luxuriant
in
Rappaccini's Daughter
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- The distrustful gardener, while plucking away the dead leaves or pruning the too luxuriant growth of the shrubs, defended his hands with a pair of thick gloves.†
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- She looked redundant with life, health, and energy; all of which attributes were bound down and compressed, as it were and girdled tensely, in their luxuriance, by her virgin zone.†
- The young man rejoiced that, in the heart of the barren city, he had the privilege of overlooking this spot of lovely and luxuriant vegetation.†
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)