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An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

Destitute of flowers; flowerless.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

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.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

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…

year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

Having anomalous flowers.

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