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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flowery

	Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
   1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
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   2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
      flowery style. --Milton.
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   The flowery kingdom, China.
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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
flowery

	flowery
     adj : 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]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
flowery

	114 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowery":
   Gongoristic, adorned, affected, allusive, ambrosial, arabesque,
   aromatic, artificial, aureate, balmy, baroque, befrilled, blooming,
   bloomy, blossoming, bombastic, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory,
   decorated, diffuse, efflorescent, elaborate, elaborated, elegant,
   embellished, embroidered, essenced, euphuistic, fancy, festooned,
   figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate,
   florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered,
   flowering, fragrant, frilly, fruity, fussy, garden, grandiloquent,
   high-flown, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom,
   in blossom, in flower, incense-breathing, inflated, inflorescent,
   labored, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, mannered,
   metaphorical, moresque, multiflorous, musky, odorate, odoriferous,
   odorous, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overcharged,
   overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked,
   overwrought, perfumed, perfumy, picturesque, pompous,
   pretty-pretty, prolix, purple, radiciflorous, redolent, redundant,
   referential, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, savory, scented, showy,
   sonorous, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, swollen,
   thuriferous, trolatitious, tropological, uniflorous, verbose,
   wordy

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