Florid

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

II. Florid ·adj Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

III. Florid ·adj Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

IV. Florid ·adj Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.