Ball-flower |
An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. |
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Noon-flower |
The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. |
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Flower |
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage. |
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Flower |
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla. |
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Flower |
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth. |
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Flower |
Grain pulverized; meal; flour. |
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Flower |
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur. |
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Flower |
A figure of speech; an ornament of style. |
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Flower |
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. |
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Flower |
Menstrual discharges. |
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Flower |
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June. |
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Flower |
To come into the finest or fairest condition. |
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Flower |
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. |
v. i. |
Flower |
To come off as flowers by sublimation. |
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Flower |
To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk. |
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Flower-de-luce |
A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. |
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Flower-fence |
A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. |
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Flower-gentle |
A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). |
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Gang-flower |
The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. |
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Joseph's flower |
A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify. |
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