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luxuriant

[luhg-zhoor-ee-uhnt, luhk-shoor-] / lʌgˈʒʊər i ənt, lʌkˈʃʊər- /


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Deploying botanical damage control, drawings were overlaid with the outlines of luxuriant trees.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

In place of velvet and luxuriant lushness, there was fixating intensity and raw power.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2024

In Sinaloa, Mexico, where luxuriant corn fields carpet the plains between the Sierra Madre mountains and the Gulf of California, short corn is already having an impact.

From Science Magazine Oct. 25, 2023

A Neolithic people, the proto-Bantu were farmers who subsisted by cultivating pearl millet and yams and extracting oil from the abundant palm and bush candle trees of the region’s luxuriant rainforests.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Lettuce was selected for luxuriant leaves at the expense of seeds or fruit; wheat and sunflowers, for seeds at the expense of leaves; and squash, for fruit at the expense of leaves.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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