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Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a l…

Having anomalous flowers.

Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower. Gray.

Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

A description of flowers.

Resembling a flower; flowerlike.

The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

A discourses on flowers. [R.]

A extravagant fondness for flowers. [R.]

Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.