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Lush vs Meadow - What's the difference?

lush | meadow |

As proper nouns the difference between lush and meadow

is that lush is while meadow is a town in texas.

lush

English

(wikipedia lush)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Related to (m). More at (l), (l).

Adjective

(er)
  • (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
  • (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
  • (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
  • * 2006 , Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times
    • Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
  • (slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
    • That meal was lush ! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
  • (British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
    • Boys with long hair are lush !
  • (British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
    • Your voice is lush , Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
    Related terms
    * lushly * lushness * luscious

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from (etyl) .An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 0486122867)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
  • Intoxicating liquor.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To drink liquor to excess.
  • To drink (liquor) to excess.
    • Derived terms
    * lushing * lusher

    References

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    meadow

    English

    (wikipedia meadow)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=(w)
    • , chapter=1, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=
  • *
  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston
    • , volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

    Derived terms

    * catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow