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eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." Harvey.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

o seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.…

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

A flower bud. Gray.

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.