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Pink :: Pink (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx..

Epiphyllum :: Epiphyllum (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation..

Corona :: Corona (n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil..

Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration..

Saccate :: Saccate (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal..

Opposite :: Opposite (a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal..

Apetalous :: Apetalous (a.) Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther]..

Pentamerous :: Pentamerous (a.) Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils..

Diplostemonous :: Diplostemonous (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium..

Enneapetalous :: Enneapetalous (a.) Having nine petals, or flower leaves..

Pepper :: Pepper (n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth..

Chromule :: Chromule (n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals..

Incurved :: Incurved (a.) Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals..

Ipomoea :: Ipomoea (n.) A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos..

Incised :: Incised (a.) Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal..

Induplicative :: Induplicative (a.) Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.

Tube :: Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla..

Lacinia :: Lacinia (n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers..

Vexillum :: Vexillum (n.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.

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