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Adjective: picturesque  `pik-chu'resk
  1. Suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture
    "a picturesque village"
     
  2. Strikingly expressive
    "a picturesque description of the rainforest"

See also: beautiful, colorful [US], colourful [Brit, Cdn], picturesquely, picturesqueness

Encyclopedia: Picturesque

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Picumnus
Picus
Picus viridis