资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Luxuriant \Lux*u"ri*ant\, a. [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare:
   cf. F. luxuriant. See {Luxuriate}.]
   Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a
   luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

         Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. --Pope.

   {Luxuriant flower} (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes
      are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.