covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.-bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.-embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.-flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.