Word Meanings - LABELLUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.

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• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• 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
• PETALOSTICHA
  An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• PETALITE
  A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• PETALIFEROUS
  Bearing petals.
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• PETALOUS
  Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• PETALIFORM
  Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.
• CURIOUSLY
  In a curious manner.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• PETALISM
  A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• MACROPETALOUS
  Having long or large petals.
• 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.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.