floridus (strewed with blossoms and flowers, rich with flowers; hence, IMPROP., of speech): florens (blooming, PROP. and IMPROP.): laetus (showing or displaying fulness; of florid style, and of the writer who possesses it): floridus et vegetus (healthy, fresh, blooming, forma). A florid complexion, nitidus color; color hilaris (Plin., 23, 8, 75; these refer to its freshness); os rubicundum (Plaut.); roseum os (†Ov., Met., 7, 705): a florid style, floridius dicendi genus (after Quint., 2, 5, 18); dicendi genus flosculis nitens.