Definition of flower

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Flower (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc..

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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..
Rhododendron :: Rhododendron (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay..
Microspore :: Microspore (n.) One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore..
Napha Water :: Napha water () A perfume distilled from orange flowers.
Bloomy :: Bloomy (a.) Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray..
Bloom :: Bloom (v. i.) To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
Sumach :: Sumach (n.) Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer..
Tassel :: Tassel (v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels..
Trigamous :: Trigamous (a.) Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers..
Chlorosis :: Chlorosis (n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color..
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..
Gillyflower :: Gillyflower (n.) A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core..
Labellum :: Labellum (n.) The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape..
Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Encarpus :: Encarpus (n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc..
Conglobate :: Conglobate (a.) Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers..
Gemma :: Gemma (n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud..
Waterleaf :: Waterleaf (n.) Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers..
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