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An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

See Cauliflower.

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

See Deflourer. Milton.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

An umbelliferous Australian flower (Actinotus helianthi), often erroneously thought to be composite. The involucre looks as if cut out of white flannel.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

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.

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

See Gillyflower.

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.