Word Meanings - SELF-FERTILIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
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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. - POLLENIN
A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. - POLLEN
The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually - FLOWERPOT
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. - FLOWERINESS
The state of being flowery. - FERTILIZATION
The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization - FERTILIZE
1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize - FLOWERAGE
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson. - POLLENIFEROUS
Producing pollen; polliniferous. - 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 - POLLENIZE
To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen. - FLOWERET
A small flower; a floret. Shak. - FLOWER-GENTLE
A species of amaranth . - 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 - FERTILIZER
1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace. 2. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc. - POLLENED
Covered with pollen. Tennyson. - 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. - SELF-FERTILIZED
Fertilized by pollen from the same flower. - 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. - SPOONFLOWER
The yautia. - DEFLOWER
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