Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
   {Flower}.]
   1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]

            Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.

   2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish
      color; as, a florid countenance.

   3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
      with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
      florid eloquence.

   4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic
      figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
      fioriture or little ornamentations.

Source : WordNet®

florid
     adj : elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
           handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: {aureate},
            {flamboyant}, {showy}]