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Word entry · 4 letters

lush

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"Green and abundant"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈlʌʃ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted hlsuStarts with LEnds with H2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. produced or growing in extreme abundance

Word origin

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskwī̆, from Proto-Germanic *laskuz, *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”).

Used in a sentence

  • How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ?
  • Virmire is a lush world located on the frontier of the Attican Traverse. Its vast seas and orbital position on the inner life zone have created a wide equatorial band of humid, tropical terrain.
  • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Green and abundant4 letters
02Richly green4 letters

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