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Granadilla :: Granadilla (n.) The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices..

Praefloration :: Praefloration (n.) Same as Prefloration.

Flora :: Flora (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.

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

Aborigines :: Aborigines (n. pl.) The original fauna and flora of a geographical are.

Labiatifloral :: Labiatifloral (a.) Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon..

Florimer :: Florimer (n.) See Floramour.

Monochlamydeous :: Monochlamydeous (a.) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx..

Biflorate :: Biflorate (a.) Alt. of Biflorou.

Disciflorous :: Disciflorous (a.) Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Symmetrical :: Symmetrical (a.) Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.

Symmetrical :: Symmetrical (a.) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.

Phaenogamous :: Phaenogamous (a.) Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.

Defloration :: Defloration (n.) That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection.

Anisomerous :: Anisomerous (a.) Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens..

Maypop :: Maypop (n.) The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple..

Sweetwood :: Sweetweed (n.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family..

Algaroba :: Algaroba (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico..

Adnation :: Adnation (n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Corolliflorous :: Corolliflorous (a.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral..

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