Word Meanings - FLORIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

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• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• FLORESCENCE
  A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.
• FLOWERAGE
  State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.
• FLOWERING
  Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns , with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• PROCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
• FLOWERET
  A small flower; a floret. Shak.
• FLOWER-GENTLE
  A species of amaranth .
• PROCESSIONER
  1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
• FLOWER
  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
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• BALL-FLOWER
  An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.