lustious
English
Etymology
From lusty + -ous.
Adjective
lustious (comparative more lustious, superlative most lustious)
- Full of lustiness or lust; vigorous, lush.
- 1906, Report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine:
- 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.
- 1907, Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C., page 51:
- Native of Japan. Leaves thick, dark lustious green, often with a reddish margin and midrib.
- 2018, The Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study, page 69:
- 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 […]
- 2020, Edith Scheffer, Janie vs. the Big Apple:
- “For your lustious sins,” she added. I wasn't sure where grandmotherly went, much less fairy anything.
Related terms
- luscious