Word Meanings - COROLLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A floret in an aggregate flower. Martyn.

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• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs 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. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• AGGREGATE
  1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. 2. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. 3. Composed of several florets within
• FLOWERAGE
  State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.
• FLOWERING
  Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns , with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow
• FLORET
  A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray. 2. Etym:
• FLOWERET
  A small flower; a floret. Shak.
• FLOWER-GENTLE
  A species of amaranth .
• AGGREGATELY
  Collectively; in mass.
• 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
• FLOWERER
  A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.
• FLOWER-FENCE
  A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.
• FLOWERFUL
  Abounding with flowers. Craig.
• FLOWER STATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• 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.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• JOSEPH'S FLOWER
  A composite herb , of the same genus as the salsify.
• DISAGGREGATE
  To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.
• SEMIFLORET
  See SEMIFLOSCULE
• SPOONFLOWER
  The yautia.
• DEFLOWER
  See MILTON
• SUNFLOWER
  Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.