lush
adjective
(of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
lushness
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a word derived from
lush.
Example Sentences
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The score of “Psycho” is generally regarded as one of the first to break away completely from Hollywood lushness for modern astringency, but “Notorious” was already moving in that direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The musical-theater singers excelled in theatricality and diction, but I missed some of the lushness that we expect from opera performances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Brugger, who appeared as Musetta in the 2012 and 2016 “Bohème” revivals, offers lushness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
According to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strengthening monsoon—and the lushness it lent—helped attract the region’s first Homo sapiens.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 7, 2024
Rising a hundred feet from the forest floor, its soaring boughs spread out in a canopy of incomparable lushness, an acre of leaves per tree, a million or so in all.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
