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an skillful how to do. Sir P. Sidney. Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; -- also called centrifugal inflorescence. -- Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions. -- Determi…

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

The cultivation of flowering plants.

The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

To come into the finest or fairest condition. Their lusty and flowering age. Robynson (More's Utopia). When flowered my youthful spring. Spenser.

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

se stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.

stalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. HO.CH2.(CHOH)4.CH2.OH = D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol; Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal. -- used in pharmacy as e…

An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle. Goodale.

A fertilized oösphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.…