extuberant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin extuberare.

Adjective[edit]

extuberant (comparative more extuberant, superlative most extuberant)

  1. swelling out; protuberant
    • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:
      her extuberant and reverst lips,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extuberant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)