Word Meanings - TRUMPET-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
Related words: (words related to TRUMPET-SHAPED)
- 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.