See Also: Florid(medicine)
florid(dictionary)
florid(dictionary)
New Hotel Florid(tourism)
florid oral papillomatosis(medicine)
florid osseous dysplasia(medicine)

gelatinous (oh) and florid (iou)


gelatinous (oh)



in a state between solid and liquid, like a gel

florid (iou)



florid adjective. M17.
[(French floride from) Latin floridus, from flor-, flos flower or florere to flower: see -ID1.]
Having many or (formerly) consisting of flowers; flowery. arch. M17.
Goldsmith In florid Beauty groves and fields appear.
fig. Profusely decorated as with flowers; highly (usu. excessively) ornate. Chiefly of speech or Writing, or a speaker or writer: having or using many rhetorical ornaments or flowery words and phrases. M17.
R. Fry A lover of all that was rich, exuberant and even florid. P. Ackroyd My French is..somewhat florid and literary.
b. Architecture. Esp. of 15th- and 16th-cent. buildings: enriched with elaborate decoration. E18.
c. Of Music: in which a simple theme is varied and embellished with melodic figures; figurate. Of counterpoint: consisting of a combination of different kinds. E18.
Glowing with Beauty; highly attractive. Of a colour: bright, glaring. M17-L18.
J. Butler Florid and gaudy Prospects and Expectations.
Having a ruddy or highly coloured complexion. Also, flushed with an emotion. M17.
N. Mailer The sort of heavy florid man who seems boyish at forty. E. L. Doctorow Morgan was now florid with excitement.
b. Of blood: bright red, i.e. from the arteries. M17-L18.
In the bloom of Health; flourishing, vigorous. arch. M17.
Steele I..attribute the florid old age I now enjoy, to my..walks up Hedington-Hill.
Of a disease or its manifestations: occurring in a fully developed form. L20.
Lancet Patients..whose florid symptoms had not remitted with major tranquillisers.
flo'ridity noun florid quality E18.
floridly adverb M17.
floridness noun M17.