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Delicious

adjective

Greatly pleasing or entertaining. Synonym: delightful. "The comedy was delightful" , "A delicious joke"

Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste. Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy.

noun

Variety of sweet eating apples.

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"Delicious" Quotes from Famous Books

... with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen from some invisible tree-top above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, for the source of which one seeks around in vain, as the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of sight, lost in the great overshadowing crown of verdure. Numerous babbling brooks intersect the forest, with moss-covered ...

— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt

... in the room, by all means! It will cost only a penny, if your ambition is moderate; and the gratification it gives will be beyond price. If you can have a flower for your window so much the better. What can be more delicious than the sun's light streaming through flowers—through the midst of crimson fuchsias or scarlet geraniums? To look out into the light through flowers—is not that poetry? And to break the force of the sunbeams by the tender resistance of green leaves? ...

— Thrift • Samuel Smiles

... place in America has been so highly celebrated as a locality for taking this really fine and delicious fish, as Saint Mary's Falls, or the Sault,[27] as it is more generally and appropriately called. This fish resorts here in vast numbers, and is in season after the autumnal equinox, and continues so till the ice begins to run. It is worthy the attention of ichthyologists. ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... shuddered a little; and the very shudder of fear had had in it a touch of delicious, trembling expectation. ...

— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

... She spent a delicious half-hour thus, and it was with regret that she finally returned to the shallows and began to wade back to the point where Cinders, with ...

— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

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