lush landscape
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3.1
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paisaje exuberante
- From the air, Houston appears as a city nestled within a beautiful green, lush landscape.
Examples
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The organic notes pay homage to Hong Kong's surprisingly lush landscape.
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An Irish acquaintance of mine once told me that people, especially Americans, have this idea of Ireland being a lush landscape with tons of happy, drunk people who work part-time and hang out the rest (basically, Portland but greener), but in reality, it's very poverty-stricken and difficult to obtain quality medical care.
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And I certainly think, well, you know, you can have a lush landscape that does a lot.
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Nature's Edge, LLC is responsible for the Grays' lush landscape, but Dana did put in a small garden on the property.
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Art of this gravitas deserves to be surrounded by beauty, and Greystone Mansion was the perfect venue, with its multi-tiered grounds cutting through the lush landscape.
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For starters, there's also Macquarie: designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997, it and all the Sub-Antarctic islands are known for their lush landscapes and wildlife.
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The book's visual images include Nic Bishop's gorgeous color photographs that show Kakapo, the people who are rescuing the birds from extinction, and the lush landscape of Codfish Island, where the recovery program is located.
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The beauty of Kauai lies in its lush landscape.
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From the air, Houston appears as a city nestled within a beautiful green, lush landscape.
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Macedonia is a beautiful country, green and mountainous, with acres of lush landscape and picturesque tile-roof houses dotting the countryside.
Synonyms
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2.6
Land with many trees and bushes, not a deep forest
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2.7
An open area covered mainly with grass where animals live or graze
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3.6
A green area in a dry desert where water and plants grow
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2.6
Land with grass where farm animals eat
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2.8
Land that has many trees or is kept to grow trees
Antonyms
How Lush
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: 'lush' (abundant, luxuriant vegetation) modifies 'landscape' (area of land), so the combined meaning 'an area rich in plant life' is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and involves no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Lush landscape comes from the image of land so full of plants that it looks soft and rich, like a green carpet after rain. So, lush means full and green and landscape is the view of the land, and together they mean 'an area rich in plant life'.