[syn: rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
   Flower.]
   1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
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            Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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   2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish
      color; as, a florid countenance.
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   3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
      with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
      florid eloquence.
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   4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic
      figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
      fioriture or little ornamentations.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
florid
    adj 1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
           handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn:
           aureate, florid, flamboyant]
    2: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with
       outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund
       cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: rubicund,
       ruddy, florid, sanguine]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "florid":
   Gothic, adorned, arabesque, aureate, baroque, befrilled, bizarre,
   blooming, bloomy, blossoming, blowzed, blowzy, bombastic,
   brain-born, burnt, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory, decorated,
   dream-built, efflorescent, elaborate, elegant, embellished,
   embroidered, euphuistic, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, fancy-born,
   fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, festooned,
   figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate,
   florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, flowered,
   flowering, flowery, flush, flushed, frilly, full-blooded, fussy,
   garden, glowing, grandiloquent, grotesque, hectic, high-wrought,
   horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower,
   inflorescent, labored, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious,
   maggoty, magniloquent, moresque, multiflorous, notional, ornate,
   ostentatious, outlandish, overblown, overcharged, overelaborate,
   overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked, overwrought,
   picturesque, preposterous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, purple,
   radiciflorous, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed,
   rhizanthous, rich, rococo, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy,
   ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, showy, sonorous,
   sunburned, uniflorous, whimsical, wild