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elaborately or excessively ornamented
flamboyant handwriting; the senator's florid speech
marked by ostentation but often tasteless
a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet; a splashy half-page ad
(noun) Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, royal poinciana, Poinciana regia
showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana