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lustious en · ADJ

Etymology

From lusty + -ous.

Meanings

1. Full of lustiness or lust; vigorous, lush.
   • Native of Japan. Leaves thick, dark lustious green, often with a reddish margin and midrib. 1907, Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C., page 51:
   • “For your lustious sins,” she added. I wasn't sure where grandmotherly went, much less fairy anything. 2020, Edith Scheffer, Janie vs. the Big Apple:
   • Dilmun now became the bright and clear 'land of the living' where the sun rises, a terrestrial paradise, an emerald isle green with lustious meadows prolific with fruit-laden fields, Ninhursag having made eight plants to sprout forth […] 2018, The Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study, page 69:
   • It usually inhabits moist uplands, growing in rich soil, and is exceedingly abundant, and attains its largest size in northern New England and New York, and as it grows among the pines, maples and elms of the Northern forest, is often a magnificent tree with its great lustious bark, and broad and graceful branches, but it requires low temperatures and abundant moisture to develop its greatest beauty. 1906, Report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine:

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