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Corolla :: Corolla (n.) The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom..

Squamulate :: Squamula (n.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Stirt :: Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope..

Bilabiate :: Bilabiate (a.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers..

Pimpernel :: Pimpernel (n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather..

Tracheophonae :: Tracheophonae (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.

Thallogen :: Thallogen (n.) One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf..

Bulblet :: Bulblet (n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion..

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..

Symmetry :: Symmetry (n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.

Erythrogen :: Erythrogen (n.) A substance reddened by acids, which is supposed to be contained in flowers..

Self-fertilization :: Self-fertilization (n.) The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Adonis :: Adonis (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower..

Convolvulus :: Convolvulus (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea..

Subordinacy :: Suborder (n.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae..

Flower :: Flower (n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..

Liguliflorous :: Liguliflorous (a.) Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc..

Snare :: Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

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