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Tuberose :: Tuberose (n.) A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.

Flower :: 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..

Blossom :: Blossom (n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

Blow :: Blow (n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms..

Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose..

Witch-hazel :: Witch-hazel (n.) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn..

Orthogamy :: Orthogamy (n.) Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy..

Horsewood :: Horsewood (n.) A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms..

Double :: Double (a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double..

Flowering :: Flowering (n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification..

Laburnum :: Laburnum (n.) A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms..

Yucca :: Yucca (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms..

Blosmy :: Blosmy (a.) Blossomy.

Synanthous :: Synanthesis (n.) The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.

Bell :: Bell (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell..

Autogamy :: Autogamy (n.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon..

Pipsissewa :: Pipsissewa (n.) A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine..

Feverfew :: Feverfew (n.) A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities..

Blast :: Blast (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom..

Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..

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