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An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.…

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

tunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench.

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidæ. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." Harvey.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.