(a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
(a.) Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
(a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
(a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
(2) They always indicate a florid intestinal attack or a relapse after previous intestinal resection.
(3) In these cases, 2,9% were revealed as florid or healed lymph node invasions.
(4) In young males, mammary tissue is generally more florid than in females of the same age.
(5) Pericardial involvement was the first and almost only manifestation of brucellosis in the first patient while in the second, a significant pericardial effusion was discovered on a routine echocardiogram performed in a patient with clinically florid brucellosis.
(6) 11.30am: Those playing "Leveson bingo" with Robert Jay QC 's florid language might like to note that he has so far used the word "adventitious" .
(7) In this study, 224 cases (92.5%) were nonproliferative disease, mostly adenosis (40.1%), and 18 cases (7.5%) were proliferative disease, which consisted of moderate to florid hyperplasia and epitheliosis.
(8) Histology and immunohistochemistry demonstrate a florid T-cell and histiocytic reaction associated with necrotic areas which must be carefully distinguished from malignant lymphoma.
(9) Electronmicroscopically, in the florid state, destruction of small-bowel epithelial cells was observed, mostly in the Lieberkühn's crypts.
(10) In each instance (one year and three years after onset of INS), a second renal biopsy showed transformation of the membranous glomerular lesion to a more florid type with glomerular subendothelial dense deposits.
(11) The vitrectomies were performed for progressive fibrovascular proliferation that caused epiretinal membranes, vitreopapillary traction, florid neovascularization, or subhyaloid hemorrhage, with or without substantial preoperative visual loss.
(12) After multiple childhood laryngoscopies and a tracheotomy, a 54-year-old, 30-pack per year smoker, who had never received radiation therapy, developed a florid exophytic transglottic squamous cell carcinoma.
(13) In a rather florid letter with classical, literary and historical references, he told her: "You, I already know from happy experience, will not be cruel to my tender flame … As I think of you I shall learn to love you more.
(14) The lesions develop into multilating sclerosis with progressive loss of the florid lesions.
(15) The pancreas shows progressive interstitial fibrosis and a florid acinoductular metaplasia, during which acinar cells appear to degranulate, dedifferentiate, and assume characteristics of intercalated or centroacinar duct cells.
(16) The patient with the most florid bilateral disease subsequently developed Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
(17) She had bilateral total (internal and external) ophthalmoplegia, a left-sided seventh cranial nerve palsy, and florid bilateral papilledema.
(18) At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".
(19) David Irving, florid in pinstripe suit and bouffant hair, has a PC for company but no-one else.
(20) Many of these hamartomatous changes were closely associated topographically with florid neoplastic lesions.
Rosy
Definition:
(superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(2) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(3) People need to be seen by a doctor if cancer is to be caught early”, said Dr Rosie Loftus, joint chief medical officer at Macmillan Cancer Support.
(4) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
(5) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(6) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
(7) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.
(8) Yet life in reality looks less rosy than these cliches suggest.
(9) Mandaric told the court he had met Rosie several times and saw nothing unusual in naming a bank account after a dog.
(10) He described Anderson as “highly intelligent,” “irrational,” and “calculated” in the violence he carried out against his former partner, Rosie Batty and their son.
(11) A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being ‘aides’ to Jeremy or those ‘close’ to the leader, have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.
(12) Twenty-three of the 43 sequenced mutations change the predicted rosy gene polypeptide sequence; the remainder would interrupt protein translation (17), or disrupt mRNA processing (3).
(13) However, Prof Rosie Woodroffe, the UK's leading badger expert, told the Guardian such a drastic change in the badger population would be "very, very unusual".
(14) Jeremy Corbyn was challenged about his position on Brexit and questioned over his sacking of Rosie Winterton as chief whip , as he faced his party’s MPs for the first time since his re-election as leader.
(15) When Anderson killed Luke, there were four warrants out for his arrest and he was facing 11 criminal charges, mostly related to family violence against his ex-partner and Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty .
(16) Intragenic recombination events were monitored between two physically separated rosy mutant alleles ry301 and ry2 utilizing DNA restriction site polymorphisms as genetic markers.
(17) The meeting was called by Iain McNicol, the party secretary, and attended by chief whip Rosie Winterton.
(18) Corbyn has been testing the water among colleagues about their willingness to serve under him over the past few days, and made his first appointment: Rosie Winterton is staying on as chief whip.
(19) These two parameters were equally affected in two cases with myelofi-rosis, 3 patients with acquired refractory anaemia, one with chronic lymphoid leukaemia, one with erythroleukaemia, one with hairy cell leukaemia, one with systemic mastocytosis and almost complete myeloperoxidase dificiency, one with sickle cell disease, two with liver diseases and two with chronic myeloid leukaemia.
(20) • £350, breakfast extra, +30 22970 91610, rosyslittlevillage.com Where to eat Parnassos Rosy’s does pretty good food, but visitors should also head up to Metochi, the village in the hills just above it.