Baroque. A term meaning extravagant, complex; applied to a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.
The lush vegetation of a rainforest. adjective. The definition of lush is something that is full or exists in abundance. It also is a woman with a sensuous body. An example of lush is vegetation in the rainforest. An example of lush is Marilyn Monroe.
2. Botany The part within the ovary of a flowering plant to which the ovules are attached. [New Latin, from Latin, flat cake, alteration of Greek plakoenta, from accusative of plakoeis, flat, from plax, plak-, flat land, surface; see plÄk-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] plaÂ·cenâ²tal adj.