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Abounding in monsters. [R.] Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton.

covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. Bacon.

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar. Milton.

Full of news; abounding in information as to current events. [Colloq.]

Abounding with snow; snowy. [Obs.] Johnson.

Abounding in nuts.

An annual plant (Abelmoschus, or Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]

An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.

Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

Abounding in pebbles. Thomson.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey.

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds." Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. Shak.