| Flower |
n. |
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. |
| Flower |
n. |
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. |
| Flower |
n. |
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. |
| Flower |
n. |
Grain pulverized; meal; flour. |
| Flower |
n. |
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur. |
| Flower |
n. |
A figure of speech; an ornament of style. |
| Flower |
n. |
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. |
| Flower |
n. |
Menstrual discharges. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To come into the finest or fairest condition. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To come off as flowers by sublimation. |
| Flower |
v. t. |
To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk. |
| Flower State |
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Florida;
a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid. |
| Flower-de-luce |
n. |
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. |
| Flower-fence |
n. |
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. |
| Flower-gentle |
n. |
A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). |
| Flowerage |
n. |
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. |
| Flowered |
imp. & p. p. |
of Flower |
| Flowerer |
n. |
A plant which flowers or blossoms. |
| Floweret |
n. |
A small flower; a floret. |
| Flowerful |
a. |
Abounding with flowers. |
| Floweriness |
n. |
The state of being flowery. |
| Flowering |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Flower |
| Flowering |
a. |
Having conspicuous flowers;
used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. |
| Flowering |
n. |
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. |
| Flowering |
n. |
The act of adorning with flowers. |
| Flowerless |
a. |
Having no flowers. |
| Flowerlessness |
n. |
State of being without flowers. |
| Flowerpot |
n. |
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. |
| Flowery |
a. |
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. |
| Flowery |
a. |
Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. |
| Flowery-kirtled |
a. |
Dressed with garlands of flowers. |
