Word Meanings - NOSEGAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope.

Related words: (words related to NOSEGAY)

• BUNCHY
  Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. (more info) 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's
• BOUQUET
  feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. 1. A nosegay; a bunch of flowers. 2. A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.
• BOUQUETIN
  The ibex.
• BUNCHBERRY
  The dwarf cornel , which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
• BUNCH
  A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page. (more info) 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6. 2. A collection, cluster,
• ODOROUS
  Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.
• BUNCH-BACKED
  Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.
• BUNCHINESS
  The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
• BUNCH GRASS
  A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• MALODOROUS
  Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. -- Mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. Carlyle.
• INODOROUS
  Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness, n.