luxuriant

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, past participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”).

adj

  1. Abundant in growth or detail.
    Thus, to find luxuriant growths of seaweeds unaffected by man, one must go to the Channel Islands where pollution has not taken its toll. 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →LCCN, page 7

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