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A bounding with juice; succulent. Bacon.

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.

Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. G. Eliot.

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut. Dryden.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

Abounding in meat.

a having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment,…

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

Abounding with mines; like a mine. "Miny caverns." Thomson.

A story or legend abounding in miracles. [Obs.] When said was all this miracle. Chaucer. Miracle monger, an impostor who pretends to work miracles. -- Miracle play, one of the old dramatic entertainments founded on legends of saints and martyrs or (see 2d Mystery, 2) on events related in the Bible.

Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

Having, or abounding with, mites.