Hypertext Webster Gateway: "florid"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
{Flower}.]
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]

Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
Taylor.

2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish
color; as, a florid countenance.

3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
florid eloquence.

4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic
figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
fioriture or little ornamentations.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

florid
adj : elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: {aureate},
{flamboyant}, {showy}]


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