Word Finder - drooping

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To hang downward; to sag.

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To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

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To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

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To allow to droop or sink.

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To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

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An instance of something drooping.

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That droops or droop.

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drooping flowers

They all went away silently and with drooping heads.

The tomato plants were drooping, their crop reduced to small discolored fruit.

The spreading branches of the wild crab apple often have a slightly drooping habit.

My sunflowers are now drooping and I wish to take seeds from them.

The weak heads are not weak, not drooping, not dropping.

He had a drooping left eyelid that covered half of the eye which rendered him a rather sinister appearance.

Elegant dark purple flowers, male and female produced in a drooping raceme in April.

Drooping in spirit and closing their eyes before the menacing cloud of death that overhung them, they dared not look life in the face.

If the veggie has wilted or drooping leaves, soft body, obvious spoilage on the body, or smells like its seen better days, leave it on the shelf and choose something that is fresh.

These trees include the weeping willow, which thrives in moist soil in USDA growing zones 5-11 and provides a drooping tree ranging from 30 to 50 feet.

Golden Drop (Onosma) - O. taurica is an evergreen perennial, 6 to 12 inches high, soon forming dense tufts, and bearing in summer drooping clusters of clear yellow almond-scented blossoms.

Their larger drooping flowers are colored rose and white.

These include tufted saxifrage Saxifraga cespitosa, drooping saxifrage S. cernua and Highland saxifrage S. rivularis.

Sagartia troglodytes with the tentacles retracted underneath a rock, with a drooping goblet appearance.

The Guinea lop-eared breed, it may be mentioned, is believed to inherit its drooping ears and throat wattles from an infusion of the blood of the Roman-nosed hornless Theban goat (see Goat).

Depending on how they're displayed, wire may also be placed in the stems to keep the flowers from drooping.

In A. arguta the flowers are red, coming as drooping racemes during August, and the finely-cut leaves are deeply serrated.

A. integrifolia has drooping spikes of fragrant yellow blossoms, which form a dense bush a few feet in height.

It attains a height of 1 to 2 feet, and its numerous slender stems form a compact tuft, with flowers long and yellow, drooping gracefully, and pretty in early summer.

Trained around the pillars of a sunny verandah, or against a warm wall, the dark wiry stems extend freely, bearing narrow deep green leaves and small drooping bell-flowers of a clear blue, continued through a long season.

It is also suited for covering porches, pergolas, and arbours, and in late summer and autumn, when every long drooping branch is thickly hung with small orange-scarlet berries, it is pretty.

It grows about 7 feet high, the slender, drooping part of the stem being long enough for the tip to reach the ground.

Brome Grass (Bromus) - At least one of this large genus of grasses is very graceful and worthy of culture-that is B. brizaeformis, a hardy biennial about 2 feet high, with large, graceful, and drooping heads.

America, a handsome grassy plant with drooping heads of a cinnamon-red color.

Weigelas make large bushes, 6 to 10 feet high and as much in diameter, and their graceful drooping branches are ornamental, even when leafless in winter.

Of drooping, bell-shaped outline, the flowers contain their greater beauty within the corolla, and which, moreover, is not all seen at a glance.

The soft, lavender-blue flowers are drooping, distinctly contracted about the middle, and openly bell-shaped at the mouth.

As there shown, the well-flowered examples were nearly a foot high, the roundly, bell-shaped, drooping flowers of rare beauty.

Codonopsis Ovata - The flowers, two or more on a stem, are drooping, bell-shaped, pale greyish-blue in color, with purple reticulations and orange and white base internally.

Coriaria Rustifolia - a tall shrubby climber of 10 to 20 feet, with square stems and slender arching shoots, covered with fresh green foliage and sprays of tiny green flowers drooping prettily from the leaf-axils.

India. They are thin and dwarf, have ribbed leaves resembling the Hazel, and bear flowers in drooping racemes.

During March and early April the primrose-colored flowers appear in drooping catkins each 2 to 3 inches in length.

Europe. C. simplicifolia is an interesting, desirable, and free-growing subject for the rock garden; flowers rich yellow in June and July, on arching and drooping Laburnum-like racemes.

Its bluish-green leaves are rather long and gracefully drooping, while the flowers, of a pale rose color, are carried in short dense clusters towards the end of the summer.

It grows to a height of 6 feet, with drooping heads of brownish-purple flowers in autumn.

The flowers form long, drooping, branched racemes, and are fragrant.

The color is not brilliant, but their effect, combined with the red leaf stalks, the varying green of the leaves, and their drooping habit, is good.

The massive flowers are borne singly upon slender stems of 1 1/2 to 2 feet, reaching at their best 6 inches wide, and composed of large drooping petals of carmine-red or reddish-purple.

It forms an erect pyramid, the upper half of which is covered with pretty pale blue blossoms, drooping gracefully from slender branchlets.

The stem is furnished from top to bottom with spreading whorls of slender branches, slightly drooping, the whole forming a graceful pyramid.

P. pleianthum is from China, its spreading leaves rising to nearly 2 feet in height, with large drooping bunches of purple flowers and heavy grey-green fruits turning purple when fully ripe.

There are several varieties-a drooping kind, which is one of the best of all pendulous trees, and a variegated-leaved kind, which is not satisfactory, as the variegation is seldom good.

The tender Nierembergias are N. frutescens, a sub-shrubby plant of erect growth, and N. filicaulis, or gracilis, as it is called, which has slender drooping branches.

Both have pretty white flowers pencilled with purple, and are suitable for the rock garden in summer or for drooping over the edges of vases.

Hardly before winter is past its abundant drooping racemes of white flowers appear, and they usually do so before the leaves.

Its drooping white flowers are also pretty.

Lyalli, with woolly leaves of a long heart-shape and large pure white flowers with a bunch of golden stamens, drooping gracefully in clusters upon long stems from the tips of the previous seasons growth.

The plants differ in habit, some being nearly prostrate, and others erect or drooping, though the largest are not much over 2 feet high; their fruits also vary in density and texture.

The leaves are heart-shaped, about 6 inches long and 3 inches broad, the small white flowers borne very freely in drooping clusters about the end of July.

S. laciniatum is a vigorous perennial with a stout stem, often 8 feet in height, and fine yellow-colored flowers, on drooping heads, which have the peculiarity of facing the east.