All 5 Uses
luxuriant
in
The Souls of Black Folk
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- The bare red clay and pines of Northern Georgia begin to disappear, and in their place appears a rich rolling land, luxuriant, and here and there well tilled.†
Chpt 7 *
- For a radius of a hundred miles about Albany, stretched a great fertile land, luxuriant with forests of pine, oak, ash, hickory, and poplar; hot with the sun and damp with the rich black swamp-land; and here the corner-stone of the Cotton Kingdom was laid.†
Chpt 7
- Spreading trees spring from a prodigal luxuriance of undergrowth; great dark green shadows fade into the black background, until all is one mass of tangled semi-tropical foliage, marvellous in its weird savage splendor.†
Chpt 7
- Soberly timbered in oak and pine, it has none of that half-tropical luxuriance of the southwest.†
Chpt 7
- The crops have neither the luxuriance of the richer land nor the signs of neglect so often seen, and there were fences and meadows here and there.†
Chpt 7
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)