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Having flowers like buds.

a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the…

Europæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

To flow in. Wiseman.

To flow in. [R.] Holland.

A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.

See Gillyflower.

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.

Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, hawkweed, etc.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

o be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. [Written also moufflon.]

See Mouflon.

Having many flowers.

The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.