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English Dictionary: flowery by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flowery
adj
  1. of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine"
  2. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
    Synonym(s): flowery, ornate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
      1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
  
      2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
            flowery style. --Milton.
  
      {The flowery kingdom}, China.
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