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The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

A discourses on flowers. [R.]

A extravagant fondness for flowers. [R.]

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

ient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

Checking the flow of saliva.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

ents; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

illidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.