FLORID

florid. Florid, a. flushed with red, red, rhetorical

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Flor″id (?), a. [[L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower.]] 1. 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor. 2. 2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
3. 3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
4. 4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.