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lus⋅cious

[luhsh-uhs]
–adjective
1. highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
2. richly satisfying to the senses or the mind: the luscious style of his poetry.
3. richly adorned; luxurious: luscious furnishings.
4. arousing physical, or sexual, desire; voluptuous: a luscious figure.
5. sweet to excess; cloying.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME lucius, unexplained var. of licius, aph. var. of delicious


lus⋅cious⋅ly, adverb
lus⋅cious⋅ness, noun


1. delectable, palatable. See delicious.


1. disgusting, unpalatable.
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