luscious
adj.adj. very pleasant to the taste, smell, or touch. You use this to describe food that is rich and soft, or things that feel very smooth and comfortable.
adj. highly pleasing to the senses, particularly the taste or touch. Often used to describe food that is rich and moist, or surfaces that are smooth and soft.
The luscious chocolate cake was gone within minutes.
She ran her fingers over the luscious velvet of the sofa, enjoying the soft texture.
The chef prepared a luscious sauce that clung perfectly to the tender meat, creating a dish that was both visually stunning and deeply satisfying to the palate.
From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) + -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52). An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.