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Word Meanings - TRUMPET-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

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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
  • DILATIVE
    Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.
  • 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.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • DILATORILY
    With delay; tardily.
  • TRUMPET
    A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves
  • TRUMPET-TONGUED
    Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
  • DILATATION
    A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. (more info) 1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. "What needeth greater dilatation" Chaucer. 2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al
  • TUBULARIAN
    Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • TUBULARIAE
    See TUBULARIDA
  • TRUMPET-SHAPED
    Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
  • DILATED
    Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak.
  • TRUMPETWOOD
    A tropical American tree of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
  • DILATION
    Delay. Bp. Hall.
  • DILATER
    One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
  • DILATABLE
    Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
  • 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.
  • 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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