Word Meanings - SPANNISHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.