luxuriance
English edit
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Etymology edit
From luxuri(ant) + -ance.[1]
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Noun edit
luxuriance (countable and uncountable, plural luxuriances)
- The property of being luxuriant.
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
- Yet such was the luxuriance of the tropical growth that the rats had not attained such numbers as to provide competition among members of the species.
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References edit
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Luxuriance”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1 (L), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 519, column 2: “f. Luxuriant: see -ance.”
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luxuriance f (plural luxuriances)
Further reading edit
- “luxuriance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.