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A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.

Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.

Having the head adorned with flowers. [R.]

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

The cultivation of flowering plants.

One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

Producing flowers. Blount.

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

Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

The act of gathering flowers.

A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

A border worked with flowers. Wright.

Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.

The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

eysuckle (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus (Lonicera), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as L. ciliata and L. Xylosteum. -- Fly hook, a fishhook supplied with an artificial fly. -- Fly leaf, an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. -- Fly maggot, a maggot bred…

Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc. Foliage plant (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus.…