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The full blooming of a flower. Rom. of R.

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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.
  • BLOOMINGNESS
    A blooming condition.
  • BLOOMER
    1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • BLOOMARY
    See BLOOMERY
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • BLOOMLESS
    Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.
  • BLOOMING
    The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  • BLOOM
    A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom. (more info) bl, OS. bl, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same 1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
  • BLOOMERY
    A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or from cast iron.
  • 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
  • BLOOMY
    1. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith. 2. Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden.
  • FLOWERET
    A small flower; a floret. Shak.
  • FLOWER-GENTLE
    A species of amaranth .
  • BLOOMINGLY
    In a blooming manner.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • FULL-BLOOMED
    Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.
  • 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.
  • THREE-FLOWERED
    Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

 

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