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The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.

A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.

ng or fluting. Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

rvirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

Having the flowers arranged in pairs.

A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

Having flowers like buds.

d, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears. In the entire process in which a new being originates . . . two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of generation by which the germ is produced;…

A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form.

The lap. [R.] There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.

The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.