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The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a l…

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

A floral ornament. See Palmette.

Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower. Gray.

Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

A description of flowers.

Resembling a flower; flowerlike.