01 a. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
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Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.[R.]“Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.” — Jer. Taylor.
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Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
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Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
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Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.(Mus.)