Flowery Definition & Meaning

flowery
adjective
  1. of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine"
  2. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

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