Word Finder - flower

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A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.

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A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

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A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

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We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.

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(usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.

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The dogwoods are in flower this week.

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(hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.

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The best examples or representatives of a group.

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We selected the flower of the applicants.

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The best state of things; the prime.

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She was in the flower of her life.

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Flour.

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(in the plural) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.

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the flowers of sulphur

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A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

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Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

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(in the plural) Menstrual discharges.

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To put forth blooms.

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This plant flowers in June.

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To decorate with pictures of flowers.

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To reach a state of full development or achievement.

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To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

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To come off as flowers by sublimation.

She stared at a flower pattern on the wall.

She picked the flower up and poked it over her left ear.

The metal panels on top of the generator opened like a flower, automatically adjusting themselves to catch the most sun.

She looked again at the flower, puzzled.

She ripped the flower from her hair and slung it in the dust.

Why did you think I sent you the flower - and that dress?

She worked her way toward a little yellow flower and leaned down to examine it.

A bee settling on a flower has stung a child.

He glanced at the flower over her ear.

The parts of the flower are in fives in calyx, corolla and stamens, followed by two carpels which unite to form a superior ovary.

Crocus in flower, reduced.

With a trembling hand, she lifted the flower and tucked it behind her right ear.

These have the coronet in the centre of the flower very large in proportion to the other parts, and much expanded, like the old hooped petticoats.

The Order thus reached the highest pinnacle of its fame, and new knights flocked to be enrolled therein from the flower of the nobility of Europe; La Valette refused a cardinal's hat, determined not to impair his independence.

The principal modern genera are grouped by the differences in the flower - tube just explained.

There are numerous varieties, differing in the size of the flower and the period of flowering.

Graceful in form and active in motion, sun-birds flit from flower to flower, feeding on small insects which are attracted by the nectar and on the nectar itself; but this is usually done while perched and rarely on the wing as is the habit of humming-birds.

The ideal of a prosperous, brilliant and attractive Magyar capital, which would keep the nobles and the intellectual flower of the country at home, uniting them in the service of the Fatherland, had received a powerful impetus from Count Stephan Szechenyi, the great Hungarian reformer of the pre-Revolutionary period.

It is a very suitable subject for the back row in mixed flower borders, or for recesses in the front part of shrubbery borders.

From the base of the inner part of the tube of the flower, but quite free from it, uprises a cylindrical stalk surrounded below by a small cup-like outgrowth, and bearing above the middle a ring of five flat filaments each attached by a thread-like point to an anther.

Tulips are readily raised from seeds, and the seedlings when they first flower (after about 7 years cultivation) are of one colour - that is, they are self-coloured.

The flower is then said to be "rectified"; it is a bizarre when it has a yellow ground marked with purple or red, a bybloemen when it has a white ground marked with violet or purple, or a rose when it has a white ground marked with rose colour.

The least stain at the base of the flower, technically called the "bottom," would render a tulip comparatively valueless.

The best effects are produced in formal beds by planting the same variety in each, to secure the plants being of the same height and in flower simultaneously.

In mixed flower borders, mixed varieties may be planted.

They are usually strong enough to flower the third year from this sowing.

The bulbs are placed in long shallow boxes, plunged in soil or ashes in the open air, and are later introduced as required into heat in semi-darkness, and are afterwards transferred to benches in the forcing houses where they flower.

According to Captain Stanley Flower, director of the Zoological Gardens at Giza, Cairo, Egypt, the ancient Egyptians kept various species of wild animals in captivity, but the first Zoological Garden of which there is definite knowledge was founded in China by the first emperor of the Chou dynasty, who reigned about iioo B.C. This was called the "Intelligence Park," and appears to have had a scientific and educational object.

According to a reference list compiled by Captain Stanley Flower, there were 102 actually existing public gardens or parks containing collections of wild animals in 1910, while there are also a considerable number of private collections.

Pollen may be transferred to the stigma of the same flower - self-pollination (or autogamy), or to the stigma of another flower on the same plant or another plant of the same species - crosspollination (or allogamy).

Thus the anthers and stigmas in any given flower are often mature at different times; this condition, which is known as dichogamy and was first pointed out by Sprengel, may be so well marked that the stigma.

In very many cases the pollen is carried to the stigma by elongation, curvature or some other movement of the filament, the style or stigma, or corolla or some other part of the flower, or by correlated movements of two or more parts.

Selfpollination frequently becomes possible towards the end of the life of a flower which during its earlier stages has been capable only of cross-pollination.

In many cases pollen has no effect on the stigma of the same flower, the plants are selfsterile, in other cases external pollen is more effective (pre-potent) than pollen from the same flower; but in a very large number of cases experiment has shown that there is little or no difference between the effects of external pollen and that from the same flower.

As a matter of fact, barbarism did break out after the flower had fallen from Neoplatonism.

It was first formally proposed as an independent method, with great improvements, by Robert Flower in The Radix, a new way of making Logarithms, which was published in 1771; and Leonelli, in his Supplement logarithmique (1802-1803), already noticed, referred to Flower and reproduced some of his tables.

In mammals Sir William Flower pointed out that a generalized type of liver exists, from which that of any mammal may be derived by suppression or fusion of lobes.

The type form is the Caucasian species roseum of botanists, hardy perennial, with finely cut leaves and large flower heads, having a ray of deep rosecoloured ligulate florets surrounding the yellow centre or disk.

They bloom during the months of May and June, as well as later, and are always most welcome ornaments for the flower borders, and useful for cutting for decorative purposes.

They may be placed either in separate beds or in the mixed flower border as may be required.

Seeds should be sown in spring in a cold frame, and the young plants should be put out into beds when large enough, and should flower the following May.

Each spikelet contains a solitary flower with two outer small barren glumes, above which is a large tough, compressed, often awned, flowering glume, which partly encloses the somewhat similar pale.

It derives its scientific name from a curious beak-like appendage at the end of the stigma, in the centre of the flower; this appendage though solid was supposed to be hollow (hence the name from 46a, a bladder, and stigma).

In Pelargonium the flower is zygomorphic with a spurred posterior sepal and the petals differing in size or shape.

They rendered good service at Syracuse and Arginusae; but their greatest achievement was the decisive victory at Delium over the flower of the Athenian army (424), in which both their heavy infantry and their cavalry displayed unusual efficiency.

These latter bore (obverse) a Nepalese emblem surrounded by eight fleurons containing the eight sacred Buddhist jewels, and (reverse) an eight-petalled flower surrounded by eight fleurons containing the names of the eight jewels in Tibetan characters.

In botany the word is used of the praefloration or folded arrangement of the petals in a flower before expansion in the summer, contrasted with "vernation" of leaves which unfold in the spring.

The collar of the Star of India is composed of alternate links of the lotus flower, red and white roses and palm branches enamelled on gold, with an imperial crown in the centre; that of the Indian Empire is composed of elephants, peacocks and Indian roses.

The last two classes of the Rising Sun wear a decoration formed of the Paulownia flower and leaves.

Increased direct effect of solar radiation compensates for the cold of the nights, and in the few spots where plants have been found in flower up to a height of 12,000 ft., nothing has indicated that the processes of vegetation were arrested by the severe cold which they must sometimes endure.