Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flowery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
flowery style. --Milton.
{The flowery kingdom}, China.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flowery
adj 1: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative
details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught
out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: {ornate}]
2: abounding in or covered with flowers; "flowering meadows";
"a flowery field"; "a bloomy sunlit slope" [syn: {bloomy},
{blossomy}]
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