flowery

Etymology

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y.

adj

  1. (not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
  2. Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
    At last she reached a flowery knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands. 1879, William Henderson, Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders
  3. (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance

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