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   lush

   /ləSH/

   adjective

   • 1. (of vegetation) growing luxuriantly: "lush greenery and cultivated fields" Similar luxuriantrichabundantsuperabundantprofuseexuberantriotousprolificteemingflourishingthrivingvigorousdensethickrankrampantovergrownjungle-likeverdantgreeninformal:junglyOpposite barrenmeager
   • ▪ very rich and providing great sensory pleasure: "lush orchestrations" Similar luxuriousluxurydeluxesumptuousgrandpalatialopulentlavishelaborateextravagantfancyinformal:plushritzyclassyposhswankyswishswankOpposite austere
   • ▪ sexually attractive: "Marianne, with her lush body and provocative green eyes"

   Word Origin late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete lash ‘soft, lax’, from Old French lasche ‘lax’, by association with luscious.

   Derivatives

   • 1. lushly adverb
   • 2. lushness noun

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