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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.

organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blo…

Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

h (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

A small flower; a floret. Shak.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

The state of being flowery.

Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils,…

Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.

State of being without flowers.

A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.