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To flow back; to ebb.

To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.

The safflower. [Obs.]

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.

The yautia.

Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.

Kansas; a nickname.

Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

To strip of flowers. [R.] G. Fletcher.

To flow or stream up. Southey.

A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.…

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidæ. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.